[Haskell-cafe] LLVM Backend status

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> B B wrote:
> 
> > 1) Is the LLVM Backend actively developed or should I be afraid it will be
> > discontinued or broken?
> 
> My understanding is that it is being actively developed. Currently for
> numerical code, the LLVM backend performs better than the native codegen.
> I also think that the LLVM backend is the only option for ARM.

And there was a lareg set of patches for the LLVM backend applied just 
now:

    http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-commits/2013-June/002324.html

and the following 10 or so commit.

Erik
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