[LLVMdev] Reading recommendations?

[Jon Harrop]

On Friday 23 January 2009 10:51:53 Michael Schuerig wrote:
> My interest is mainly in using LLVM as the code generator for dynamic
> and/or functional languages. Are any of the LLVM-related[1]
> publications or other papers/books particularly recommended for this
> purpose?

You may be interested in the new series of OCaml Journal articles about the 
creation of compilers for functional languages using LLVM from OCaml that I 
just announced on this list. However, the articles currently only cover 
statically typed functional languages (like OCaml and F#). If there is 
sufficient interest in the compilation of dynamically typed languages then 
that could be addressed in later articles.

Is anyone interested in that?

> Incidentally, the recent "Criticism of garbage collection [...]" thread
> brought Pure[2] to my attention and I'll surely have a look at the
> code.

Yes. I also discovered Pure when I began using LLVM and it served as an 
excellent case study.

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