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tenslision Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles

It looks like the author of this (Stephen Diehl) is looking for a job in Boston. Maybe HN can help him out?

https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/538494839189700608

tenslision What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

It appears to be twice as long as the old 2.0 version, and a lot of the latest GHC 7.8 topics which wasn't released before the last version.

tenslision What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell 2.0

There's also a very detailed tutorial on writing a toy compiler with Haskell and LLVM on this site:

http://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/

tenslision Optimising Haskell for a tight inner loop

> The moment you start trying to compete against hand written assembly, any high level lang gets a bit quirky.

Yes, which is why I wonder why GHC went with it's own code generator instead of using LLVM? It seems like a lot of the outputted assembly would be coalesced with LLVM's optimizer passes. Is there work on this problem within the Haskell world?