[LLVMdev] glasgow haskell appears to be adopting LLVM

[Chris Lattner]

On Feb 19, 2010, at 11:33 AM, james woodyatt wrote:

> everyone--
> 
> File this under Advocacy.
> 
> See this thread <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2010-February/018425.html> for more information, but the short summary is that they're deprecating their old "compile to GCC" backend in favor of David Terei's new LLVM backend.  They're still planning for their C-- backend to be the primary backend for native code generation, but by bundling LLVM with the GHC sources, they'll be able to remove a whole passle of Perl and GCC-related crawling horrors.  They're hoping to get some performance improvements out of the migration.
> 
> Let us all now give a warm welcome to our new Haskell comrades!

Very nice, care to add a GHC entry to the LLVM Users page?

-Chris