On 01/11/2007, Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that's right. We'll be doing a lot more work on the code generator in > the rest of this year and 2008. Here "we" includes Norman Ramsey and John > Dias, as well as past interns Michael Adams and Ben Lippmeier, so we have > real muscle! >
That's very good to know. I wonder where could I read more about current state of the art on Haskell compilation techniques and about the implementation of ghc in general? Is there a book on it or maybe some group of papers that would aid me to understand it? Cheers, Paulo Matos > Simon > > | > I don't think the register allocater is being rewritten so much as it is > | > being written: > | > | >From talking to Ben, who rewrote the register allocator over the > | summer, he said that the new graph based register allocator is pretty > | good. The thing that is holding it back is the CPS conversion bit, > | which was also being rewritten over the summer, but didn't get > | finished. I think these are both things which are likely to be done > | for 6.10. > | > | Thanks > | > | Neil > | _______________________________________________ > | Haskell-Cafe mailing list > | Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm PhD Student @ ECS University of Southampton, UK _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
