haskell 7 world -> moving to 8!

[Ken Cunningham]

On 2019-09-12, at 7:02 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> 
>  PPC is pretty much out, I think, because the llvm backend that haskell uses can't produce quality PPC code... 


Actually -- that is not correct. 

I was under the impression that ghc used llvm as it's sole code generator based on our previous port, but llvm turns out to be an optional code generator, and our current ghc port isn't configured to use it at all I see.

So, who knows? PPC here we come!

Ken