4 Feb
2011
4 Feb
'11
11:59 a.m.
On 02/03/2011 03:10 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:
(Unless you're seriously going to suggest that GHC's native code generator is any match for the might of a half-decent C compiler...)
I don't know enough about the native code generator to make a claim like that, but we're not comparing the native code generator against a C compiler; we're comparing it against a C code generator whose output is fed through a C compiler. These are very different things, and I think it gives the native code generator an edge. My own observations from immediately before the C backend was deprecated was that the native code generator averaged slightly better performing code. - Jake