From: Jonathan Protzenko <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com>
To: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
Cc: oleg@okmij.org, ontologiae@gmail.com, caml-list@inria.fr,
caml@inria.fr, "Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>
Subject: Re: [Caml-devel] [Caml-list] Why NOT to compile OCaml via C
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:06:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE1DDBB.8040404@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPFanBEJOtQ5=VD8_-1T2xUPqpL5DvRFX+mtkEPV3LG_hrbUQg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri 09 Dec 2011 10:58:31 AM CET, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
>> I find the idea of making ocamlopt a GCC (or
>> LLVM) frontend the most sensible and constructive one I've seen in these
>> discussions.
>
> Note that, besides Oleg excellent description of some issues, the idea
> has already been discussed a few times before, here and on llvm-dev:
> - http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2007-November/011525.html
> (discussion on llvm-dev)
> - http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2010/11/315de2fb3656166edba13bb657fa691f.fr.html
> (Benedikt Meurer: why ocamljit2 isn't an LLVM backend)
> - https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/arc/caml-list/2011-08/msg00192.html
> (Pierre-Alexandre Voyes: question about a C backend; further
> discussion of the DDC case)
> - https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/arc/caml-list/2011-08/msg00003.html
> (Wojciech Meyer: announcement of an ocaml compiler framework project
> with goal and structure similar to LLVM)
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/043719.html is
an interesting email thread on the same topic, discussing some very
specific issues as to why llvm is not necessarily a good compiler
backend.
jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-09 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 6:57 oleg
2011-12-09 7:52 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-09 9:58 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-09 10:06 ` Jonathan Protzenko [this message]
2011-12-09 11:03 ` Mehdi Dogguy
2011-12-09 12:08 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 12:37 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-09 14:05 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 14:30 ` Török Edwin
2011-12-09 14:51 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 23:38 ` oliver
2011-12-09 21:22 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-12-10 9:36 ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-10 11:34 ` Jon Harrop
2011-12-09 23:01 ` oliver
2011-12-09 23:18 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-10 0:20 ` Till Varoquaux
2011-12-10 7:35 ` oleg
2011-12-10 15:40 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2011-12-10 23:56 ` Peter Hawkins
2011-12-11 8:24 ` Basile Starynkevitch
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