2013/8/26 Ben Lippmeier <b...@ouroborus.net> > > On 23/08/2013, at 3:52 AM, Ryan Newton wrote: > > > Well, what's the long term plan? Is the LLVM backend going to become > the only backend at some point? > > I wouldn't argue against ditching the NCG entirely. It's hard to justify > fixing NCG performance problems when fixing them won't make the NCG faster > than LLVM, and everyone uses LLVM anyway.
> We're going to need more and more SIMD support when processors supporting > the Larrabee New Instructions (LRBni) appear on people's desks. At that > time there still won't be a good enough reason to implement those > instructions in the NCG. > > Ben. > > I hope to implement SIMD support for the native code gen soon. It's not a huge task and having feature parity between LLVM and NCG would be good. Niklas > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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