4 Jan
2008
4 Jan
'08
12:46 p.m.
Ryan Dickie wrote:
Maybe I am asking an uninformed n00b question but how come GHC has fvia-C and are also working on an asm backend. Is there any reason why they could not build off the work of LLVM (which supports various architectures) then ditch those two backends and call it a day?
You are not the first to think of it, and surely not the last! Whilst it's a very interesting idea, I believe there are reasons why it may not solve all our problems: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-December/011794.... http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-December/011795.... and others in that thread. Jules