[LLVMdev] Any experiemnts/evaluations on LLVM and graph rewriting (term-rewriting) systems?

[Valery Khamenya]

Hallo Albert,

thanks!

best regards
--
Valery A.Khamenya


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Albert Graef <Dr.Graef at t-online.de> wrote:

> Valery Khamenya wrote:
> > are there any attempts to use LLVM in graph-rewriting (term-rewriting)
> > language implementations?
>
> Pure is a dynamically typed FPL based on term rewriting:
>
> http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/
>
> It uses the LLVM JIT to compile and execute code on the fly in an
> interpreter-like environment, and can also batch-compile code to native
> executables. This includes the deterministic (non-backtracking) tree
> matching automata needed to implement general term rewriting in an
> efficient manner.
>
> > How good is LLVM for this?
>
> There haven't been any other implementations of Pure compilers so that I
> can't give you a real comparison. What I can say with confidence is that
> LLVM made developing a code generator for Pure very convenient, because
> of the readily available optimization passes, cross-platform support and
> the integrated JIT.
>
> > E.g., is it natural to expect that the LLVM-based implementation of the
> > language Concurrent Clean be any faster than its reference
> implementation?
>
> You should probably get in touch with David Terei. His LLVM ghc backend
> seems to be doing fairly well:
>
> http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/smoking-fast-haskell-code-using-ghcs-new-llvm-codegen/
>
> Albert
>
> --
> Dr. Albert Gr"af
> Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
> Email:  Dr.Graef at t-online.de, ag at muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
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>
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