On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:35:10PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: >> GHC HQ is considering retiring the registerised >> -fvia-C path, leaving only native code for normal use and ANSI C for >> porting. This is because mangled C is only about 3% faster according to >> the GHC benchmark suite, and carries a high maintaince cost. >> > > It would mean that on Windoze, you don't have to supply gcc and an emulator > for running it...
That was also part of the justification. > (Are you keeping an external assembler and linker, or doing the whole > shooting match in GHC?) Currently, we use gas and ld, yes... Stefan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
