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.html
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-December/011795.html
and others in that thread.
Jules
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