From: "Török Edwin" <edwintorok@gmail.com>
To: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Value types (Was: [Caml-list] ocamlopt LLVM support)
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:27:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101213002724.3ef32c01@deb0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03a701cb9a48$b957e860$2c07b920$@com>
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:05:34 -0000
Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Edwin wrote:
> > AFAICT LLVM's OCaml bindings are only good for generating LLVM IR
> > from OCaml, not for actually performing transformations on it
> > (there is no binding to retrieve the type of a value for example).
> > I'll probably be looking into fixing that in the near future, and
> > this may indirectly help your LLVM backend (if you intend to write
> > OCaml specific transformations on the LLVM IR).
>
> That's a lot of work. Wouldn't it be preferable to do the passes on
> the OCaml side and focus on generating high quality LLVM IR?
Yes, that is probably a better approach (generating the optimized IR in
the first place).
Best regards,
--Edwin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-12 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-12 14:54 Jon Harrop
2010-12-12 15:55 ` Török Edwin
2010-12-12 17:14 ` Jon Harrop
2010-12-12 17:26 ` Török Edwin
2010-12-12 18:01 ` Jon Harrop
2010-12-12 18:22 ` Török Edwin
2010-12-12 19:09 ` Benedikt Meurer
2010-12-12 19:20 ` John Carr
2010-12-14 9:43 ` Value types Goswin von Brederlow
2010-12-12 19:55 ` Value types (Was: [Caml-list] ocamlopt LLVM support) Török Edwin
2010-12-12 22:05 ` Jon Harrop
2010-12-12 22:27 ` Török Edwin [this message]
2010-12-12 23:41 ` Jon Harrop
2010-12-13 2:13 ` Eray Ozkural
2010-12-12 21:50 ` Jon Harrop
2010-12-13 8:43 ` Alain Frisch
2010-12-15 10:29 ` Benedikt Meurer
2010-12-15 13:15 ` Jon Harrop
2010-12-14 9:54 ` Value types Goswin von Brederlow
2010-12-12 19:53 ` Value types (Was: [Caml-list] ocamlopt LLVM support) Brian Hurt
2010-12-12 20:39 ` Jon Harrop
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