Thanks for the Weekly News that is really useful info. On 25 October 2014 09:00, Austin Seipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note: this post is available (with full hyperlinks) at > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20141024 > > - This past week, a discussion sort of organically started on the > `#ghc` IRC channel about the future of the LLVM backend. GHC's backend > is buggy, has no control over LLVM versions, and breaks frequently > with new versions. This all significantly impacts users, and relegates > the backend to a second class citizen. After some discussion, Austin > wrote up a proposal for a improved backend > <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ImprovedLLVMBackend>, and wrangled > several other > people to help. The current plan is to try an execute this by GHC > 7.12, with the goal of making the LLVM backend Tier 1 for major > supported platforms. > Is this effort orthogonal to NCG for armv7 and armv8? I am glad people are thinking about how to address this but "we ship and fix a version of LLVM for GHC" sounds a bit scary to me. :) Jens
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