13 Sep
2007
13 Sep
'07
11:21 p.m.
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:58 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
clawsie:
has anyone ever considered using llvm as a infrastructure for haskell compilation? it wold seem people are looking at building frontends for scheme, ocaml, etc. i don't know if an alternate backend is appropriate, but it would seem to be an interesting way to aggregate the best thinking for various optimizations over a more diverse group of developers.
People are definitely interested in it. Needs some people with compiler experience and GHC experience to tackle it seriously, I suspect.
Reading and writing llvm files could also be useful to prototype/implement compiler passes using Haskell. / Thomas