[Haskell-cafe] Re: Some great results on fused code with the LLVM backend

[Edward Kmett]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Johann Höchtl <johann.hoechtl at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Will this eg mean
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> * interoperability between LLVM assemblies for free
>
* plugable garbage collectors
>

Keep in mind the LLVM GHC backend still uses the separate Haskell stack and
uses a custom calling convention, so LLVM's garbage collection support isn't
used at all, it is still a rather strange duck as far as the rest of the
LLVM ecosystem is concerned.


> * GHC/LLVM bytecode with JIT-option?
>

There is little preventing this one.

-Edward Kmett
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