Re: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-27 Thread Chad Scherrer
Wow, lots of great information. We'll take a look at the papers and get back if there's any remaining confusion. Thanks! Chad ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskel

RE: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-27 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| I think we're all rather excited about seeing this stuff land. | What's the expected timeline, wrt. ghc 6.10's release? Good question. I've updated the overview here http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGen to say what we plan. Simon ___

Re: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-27 Thread Simon Marlow
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: Deborah Goldsmith: Has there been any thought about working with the LLVM project? I didn't find anything on the wiki along those lines. I have only had a rather brief look at LLVM, but my understanding at the moment is that LLVM would not be able to support one

RE: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-27 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| > Has there been any thought about working with the LLVM project? I | > didn't find anything on the wiki along those lines. | | I have only had a rather brief look at LLVM, but my understanding at | the moment is that LLVM would not be able to support one of GHC's | current code layout optimisati

Re: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-26 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:25 +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > However, I am not convinced that this layout optimisation is really > gaining that much extra performance these days. In particular, since > dynamic pointer tagging, very short running "evals" (for which the > extra indirect

Re: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-26 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
on-Jones Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:32 PM To: Norman Ramsey; John Dias Cc: Chad Scherrer; GHC Users Subject: RE: "dataflow rewriting engine" Norman, John Would you care to respond to this? (Perhaps by amplifying the wiki page?) A good starting point is perhaps Craig's paper.

Re: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-26 Thread Austin Seipp
Excerpts from Deborah Goldsmith's message of Tue Aug 26 14:26:33 -0500 2008: > Has there been any thought about working with the LLVM project? I > didn't find anything on the wiki along those lines. I imagine if tried, haskell as a language on LLVM would quickly end up a second-class citizen, du

Re: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-26 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Cc: Chad Scherrer; GHC Users Subject: RE: "dataflow rewriting engine" Norman, John Would you care to respond to this? (Perhaps by amplifying the wiki page?) A good starting point is perhaps Craig's paper. Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:glasgow- [E

Re: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-26 Thread Don Stewart
; > Let me know how I can further clarify the text, > -j > > > -Original Message- > > From: Simon Peyton-Jones > > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:32 PM > > To: Norman Ramsey; John Dias > > Cc: Chad Scherrer; GHC Users > > Subject: RE: "

RE: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-26 Thread John Dias
amsey and Dias 2005 http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/zipcfg-abstract.html). Let me know how I can further clarify the text, -j > -Original Message- > From: Simon Peyton-Jones > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:32 PM > To: Norman Ramsey; John Dias > Cc: Chad Scherrer; GHC Users

RE: "dataflow rewriting engine"

2008-08-26 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Norman, John Would you care to respond to this? (Perhaps by amplifying the wiki page?) A good starting point is perhaps Craig's paper. Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On | Behalf Of Chad Scherrer | Sent: 22 August 2008 22:21 | To: GHC User