On Jun 12, 2007, at 1:52 AM, Martin Grabmueller wrote:
LLVM is indeed interesting, but has several drawbacks:
- written in C++ (we don't have experience in interfacing Haskell
and C++)
You'd have to write a C wrapper, or generate the LLVM intermediate
language directly from Haskell.
- has been used with imperative languages yet, no experience available
on using it for FP.
Very true. On the other hand, the LLVM team would probably value the
feedback. Having LLVM work with FP languages would be a benefit to
the FP community, too.
- rather large system
Well, so is Haskell. :-) Why is this a drawback?
- and finally, I have to admit: a bit of Not Invented Here
One of our goals was indeed to have a Haskell-only code generator,
which
has the advantage that it is easier to install, use and distribute.
Targeting LLVM would make porting Haskell to a new platform much
easier. Maybe it would make sense to "port" ghc to emit code that
way, in addition to C--?
Deborah
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