I could see it as a useful abstraction instead of directly generating assembly. To me the idea behind llvm seems nice and clean and academic to a certain degree. It can see it as something to look out for in the future. <br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">brad clawsie</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:clawsie@fastmail.fm">clawsie@fastmail.fm</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
has anyone ever considered using llvm as a infrastructure for haskell<br>compilation? it wold seem people are looking at building frontends for<br>scheme, ocaml, etc. i don&#39;t know if an alternate backend is<br>appropriate, but it would seem to be an interesting way to aggregate
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