<div dir="ltr">yup! its exciting. <div><br></div><div style>we were talking about this a bit earlier today on #haskell-llvm, and it sounds doable. </div><div style>There were some concerns that folks had, but hopefully we can give the llvm devs feedback about this before its finalized in LLVM 3.4 so it doesn't come with any performance caveats for ghc.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Gabor Greif <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ggreif@gmail.com" target="_blank">ggreif@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This looks pretty exiting for LLVM IR-generation:<br>
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<a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130909/188042.html" target="_blank">http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130909/188042.html</a><br>
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GHC 7.10 might generate LLVM IR including embedded tables without<br>
resorting to linker tricks/postprocessing when targeting LLVM 3.4!<br>
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The relevant LLVM bug is <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14080" target="_blank">http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14080</a><br>
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and GHC Trac: <a href="http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4213" target="_blank">http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4213</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Gabor<br>
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