I've collected the main points of this discussion on the wiki. http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/Backends/LLVM/ReplacingNCG Ben. On 28/08/2013, at 2:51 AM, Austin Seipp wrote: >>>>> Well, what's the long term plan? Is the LLVM backend going to >>>> become the only backend at some point?