Registerised x86_64 port: test version available

[Duncan Coutts]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 15:16 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> I've put up an x86_64/Linux registerised build for testing here:
>  
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.4-x86_64-unknown-linux
> .tar.bz2
> 
> This is a binary distribution: ./configure && make -k install.  The -k
> is necessary because it doesn't have all the docs.  It was built on
> Fedora FC3.  Note it claims version 6.4, but actually it's 6.4.20050308.
> 
> Still no GHCi, no foreign export dynamic, no native code gen.  But it
> seems to work (this is a stage 3 build).

For someone with an amd64 and some spare time:

So the burning question is: do all those extra registers help? Does
Haskell code run faster in 64bit mode or 32bit mode?

Performance graphs on a postcard to the usual address...

Duncan