On 2019-08-08 23:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > On 8/8/19 10:38 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Any comments, ideas, or help here? > I'm by no means a GHC nor Haskell expert, but I think it should be generally > feasible to add native code generation support in GHC for all architectures > which are supported by LLVM. > > According to a bug report I saw upstream [1], adding native support for GHC > through LLVM is comparably easy and might be a good options for mips*, riscv*, > s390x and sparc* which all are officially supported by LLVM but have no NGC > in GHC (with the exception of SPARC which has a 32-bit NGC that James Clarke > is > currently porting to SPARC64 [2]).
Yes, that's clearly the way to go for the GHC issue. As a bonus it greatly improves the performances. That said it doesn't solve the problem in general, ie for rustc or the future affected packages. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
