31 Oct
2007
31 Oct
'07
10:50 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:30:17AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
I don't think the register allocater is being rewritten so much as it is being written:
From talking to Ben, who rewrote the register allocator over the summer, he said that the new graph based register allocator is pretty good. The thing that is holding it back is the CPS conversion bit, which was also being rewritten over the summer, but didn't get finished. I think these are both things which are likely to be done for 6.10.
Oh, that's good news. I look forward to a massive increase in the performance of GHC-compiled programs, most specifically GHC itself. Stefan