<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:33, Mats Rauhala <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mats.rauhala@gmail.com">mats.rauhala@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I didn't realize asking how long it's been for him, but he mentioned<br>
about new fronts in optimizing compilers and specifically mentioned a<br>
compiler that could compile to legible C. I've been following Haskell </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">only for a couple of years, so my intuition tells me that he means<br>
`-fvia-c`, and I mentioned to him that it's about to be deprecated and<br>
replaced with the llvm back-end. I also mentioned hackage, but he hadn't<br>
heard of it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The legible C thing is probably jhc ( <a href="http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/">http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/</a> ). It's GHC's *illegible* registerized C that is being phased out; the slightly-more-legible ANSI C mode used for porting is staying, though.</div>
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