From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Native compiler for oCaml on System Z
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:39:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A00351.2050604@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <559EEE98.8080303@starynkevitch.net>
On 09/07/15 23:58, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> A possible way might be to not directly target SystemZ but to
> leverage on some of the efforts which either have translated the
> Ocaml bytecode to C, or to consider writing some JIT backend for
> Ocaml; I'm thinking of patching the Ocaml native compiler to use
> LLVM or more probably the very new GCCJIT
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/jit to leverage on the optimization
> abilities of GCC middle-end & back-end etc.
Targeting LLVM or GCCJIT is an interesting but separate project.
At least one attempt were made in the past to target LLVM, running into
problems with the (exact) GC interface of OCaml. Maybe LLVM improved
recently in this department, and maybe GCCJIT can handle it too. If
not, I think it's a dead end.
- Xavier Leroy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-10 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-09 20:35 Bull Durham
2015-07-09 21:58 ` Basile Starynkevitch
[not found] ` <CAGyVGgNf543Jp4thTQbN5O7xvGDJphrUWY2w_G0YtAm0LTExYQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-07-09 23:03 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2015-07-10 17:39 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2015-07-10 17:47 ` Raoul Duke
2015-07-10 22:15 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-07-10 15:30 ` Mark Shinwell
2015-07-14 13:39 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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