Hi, On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Rob Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 January 2014 12:37, Simon Peyton-Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> * But using LLVM has some disadvantages. >> c) we play some efficiency tricks (notably "tables next to code") that >> LLVM can't play (yet). I think. > > In fact, this could well be implemented in the GHC 7.10, as this has > been committed in LLVM on 15th September: > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-September/002565.html
>From my reading of the documentation for this feature it seems like for GHC to take advantage of it LLVM also needs to implement global symbol offsets [1]. I've emailed the author of the function prefix data patch, but he didn't respond. [1] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-April/061511.html -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
