Re: Better X87

2016-10-21 Thread Simon Marlow
I believe that comment goes even further back - it was probably Julian Seward who worked on the x86 code generator around 1999, if I recall correctly. ​ ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org

Re: Better X87

2016-10-09 Thread Thomas Jakway
OK, makes sense, thanks. On 10/09/2016 02:14 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: Hi Thomas! Thomas Jakway writes: I was looking through compiler/nativeGen/X86/Instr.hs and it's pretty hard not to notice the

Re: Better X87

2016-10-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi Thomas! Thomas Jakway writes: > I was looking through compiler/nativeGen/X86/Instr.hs > > and it's pretty hard not to notice the (hilarious) diatribe about the > horror that is x87. > Reading

Better X87

2016-10-09 Thread Thomas Jakway
I was looking through compiler/nativeGen/X86/Instr.hs and it's pretty hard not to notice the (hilarious) diatribe about the horror that is x87. git log -p says this was apparently written in 2009 by