llvm dev - Feb 2010 - [LLVMdev] glasgow haskell appears to be adopting LLVM

Hi David, 

Your paper is linked on an LLVM site, but I can't give you the url as we are
currently down for maintenance. If I remember correctly it was under
"recent papers"
off of the home site.

Garrison

On Feb 21, 2010, at 18:55, David Terei wrote:
> Just to correct, the GCC back-end isn't being depreciated in favour of 
> the LLVM back-end (as much as I would to claim it was). The GCC back-end 
> has been on the list of things GHC developers wanted to remove for a 
> while now and the larger reason its being done now is that SSE support 
> has recently been added to the native code generator, fixing one of the 
> last advantages the C back-end had. LLVM and a new back-end architecture 
> that should land in GHC soon are somewhat responsible in that a lot of 
> GHC developers see them as the more promising and interesting future 
> than using GCC.
> 
> Oh by the way (probably should have posted this a while ago but just 
> lost track of it) here is my honours thesis paper that I wrote about the 
> LLVM back-end for GHC for the interested:
> 
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/davidt-thesis.pdf
> 
> ~ David
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On Feb 21, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Garrison Venn wrote:
> Hi David, 
> 
> Your paper is linked on an LLVM site, but I can't give you the url as
we are
> currently down for maintenance. If I remember correctly it was under
"recent papers"
> off of the home site.
It's here:
http://llvm.org/pubs/2009-10-TereiThesis.html

-Chris
> 
> Garrison
> 
> On Feb 21, 2010, at 18:55, David Terei wrote:
> 
>> Just to correct, the GCC back-end isn't being depreciated in favour
of
>> the LLVM back-end (as much as I would to claim it was). The GCC
back-end
>> has been on the list of things GHC developers wanted to remove for a 
>> while now and the larger reason its being done now is that SSE support 
>> has recently been added to the native code generator, fixing one of the
>> last advantages the C back-end had. LLVM and a new back-end
architecture
>> that should land in GHC soon are somewhat responsible in that a lot of 
>> GHC developers see them as the more promising and interesting future 
>> than using GCC.
>> 
>> Oh by the way (probably should have posted this a while ago but just 
>> lost track of it) here is my honours thesis paper that I wrote about
the
>> LLVM back-end for GHC for the interested:
>> 
>> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/davidt-thesis.pdf
>> 
>> ~ David
>> _______________________________________________
>> LLVM Developers mailing list
>> LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu         http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
> 
> 
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People may be interested in this:

http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/smoking-fast-haskell-code-using-ghcs-new-llvm-codegen/

Benchmarking of the 3 GHC back-ends for code which LLVM particularly 
excels. Very nice display of how impressive LLVM can be.