http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary
| -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paulo J. Matos | Sent: 01 November 2007 13:42 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: Neil Mitchell; Stefan O'Rear; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; haskell-cafe@haskell.org | Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why can't Haskell be faster? | | 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
