2009/3/21 Andrey Riabushenko <cd...@bk.ru>: > I would like to develop LLVM frontend to Ocaml language. LLVM does > participate in GSoC. LLVM do not mind to developed a ocaml frontend as LLVM > GSoC project. I want to discuss details with you before I will make an > official proposal to LLVM.
Very cool! > I think the best would to way to develop ocaml llvm front end as a part of > ocaml distribution. I don't not want to develop yet another a separate > project, which is half-done llvm frontend that nobody uses. There are plenty > of those for other languages lying around. I propose to forget about JIT > capabilities of LLVM and concentrate on AOT compilation for now. This sounds reasonable. > Ocamlopt currently generates native assembler for the following platforms: > i386, AMD64, ia64, arm, hppa, alpha, m68k, mips, powerpc, sparc assembler. > I propose to add LLVM assembler generation as another platform to ocamlopt. It > requires the least modification of ocaml source and easy to maintain. One interesting problem may be that LLVM assembler is typed, while other assemblers are not. > LLVM > will give ocaml an aggressive whole program optimizer and will make possible > to run ocaml on new platforms that are supported by LLVM, but not yet by > Ocaml. Is there any such platform? > 2. Will you merge LLVM platform to the ocaml trunk assuming that it works as > it should? I think it should be (assuming you or someone will continue to maintain it), but I am in no position to answer this. -- Seo Sanghyeon _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
