llvm dev - Jan 2009 - [LLVMdev] Reading recommendations?

[I sent this already two days ago, but apparently the message didn't get 
through. It is not in the archive either.]

I've read through the Programmer's Manual, Language Reference, and 
Kaleidoscope Tutorial, still I'm struggling to get started hands-on 
with LLVM. This may just be a passing phase and I'm in no hurry, so I'd 
like to take the time to read up some more on the use and inner 
workings of LLVM.

My interest is mainly in using LLVM as the code generator for dynamic 
and/or functional languages. Are any of the LLVM-related[1] 
publications or other papers/books particularly recommended for this 
purpose?

Incidentally, the recent "Criticism of garbage collection [...]"
thread
brought Pure[2] to my attention and I'll surely have a look at the 
code.

Michael

[1] http://llvm.org/pubs/
[2] http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/
-- 
Michael Schuerig
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http://www.schuerig.de/michael/

On Friday 23 January 2009 10:51:53 Michael Schuerig
wrote:
> My interest is mainly in using LLVM as the code generator for dynamic
> and/or functional languages. Are any of the LLVM-related[1]
> publications or other papers/books particularly recommended for this
> purpose?
You may be interested in the new series of OCaml Journal articles about the 
creation of compilers for functional languages using LLVM from OCaml that I 
just announced on this list. However, the articles currently only cover 
statically typed functional languages (like OCaml and F#). If there is 
sufficient interest in the compilation of dynamically typed languages then 
that could be addressed in later articles.

Is anyone interested in that?
> Incidentally, the recent "Criticism of garbage collection [...]"
thread
> brought Pure[2] to my attention and I'll surely have a look at the
> code.
Yes. I also discovered Pure when I began using LLVM and it served as an 
excellent case study.

-- 
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e

On Sunday 25 January 2009, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Friday 23 January 2009 10:51:53 Michael Schuerig wrote:
> > My interest is mainly in using LLVM as the code generator for
> > dynamic and/or functional languages. Are any of the LLVM-related[1]
> > publications or other papers/books particularly recommended for
> > this purpose?
>
> You may be interested in the new series of OCaml Journal articles
> about the creation of compilers for functional languages using LLVM
> from OCaml that I just announced on this list.
Yes, I noticed your announcement and I'll keep it in mind, however, this 
is not the route I'd like to take right now as I don't want to add yet 
another language to the mix. It's likely that I'm going to learn OCaml 
some time, but not in the near future.

Nonetheless, thanks for pointing out the articles.

Michael

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Michael Schuerig
mailto:michael at schuerig.de
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