Also, it could be a chance to make it easier to experiment with things like polly: http://polly.llvm.org/
On 31 October 2014 15:18, Sophie Taylor <sop...@traumapony.org> wrote: > If this does happen, it'd probably make sense to use this as a chance to > refactor out the LLVM bits and use the llvm-general package. llvm-general > seems to only depend on base libraries (apart from parsec, which seems to > only be used for parsing data layout formats; it could probably be disabled > with a compiler flag if we construct the data layout structures directly; > see > https://github.com/bscarlet/llvm-general/blob/5f266db5ad8015f7d79374684b083ffdeed3c245/llvm-general-pure/src/LLVM/General/DataLayout.hs). > It seems a more principled way than what is currently implemented, and work > done to improve that library via ghc would also help every other user of > the library, and visa versa. > > On 27 October 2014 19:25, Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:52:53 -0500 >> Austin Seipp <aus...@well-typed.com> wrote: >> >> > I won't repeat what's on the wiki page too much, but the TL;DR version >> > is: we should start packaging a version of LLVM, and shipping it with >> > e.g. binary distributions of GHC. It's just a lot better for everyone. >> > >> > I know we're normally fairly hesitant about things like this (shipping >> > external dependencies), but I think it's the only sane thing to do >> > here, and the situation is fairly unique in that it's not actually >> > very complicated to implement or support, I think. >> >> That makes a lot of sense! Gentoo allows user >> upgrade llvm and ghc independently, which makes >> syncing harder. Thus Gentoo does not care much >> about llvm support in ghc. >> >> -- >> >> Sergei >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> >
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