[Haskell-cafe] haskell on llvm?

[Don Stewart]

clawsie:
> has anyone ever considered using llvm as a infrastructure for haskell
> compilation? it wold seem people are looking at building frontends for
> scheme, ocaml, etc. i don't know if an alternate backend is
> appropriate, but it would seem to be an interesting way to aggregate
> the best thinking for various optimizations over a more diverse group
> of developers.

People are definitely interested in it. Needs some people with compiler
experience and GHC experience to tackle it seriously, I suspect.

-- Don