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		eliben on Nov 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google launches Portable Native Client The PNaCl bitcode can serve as the output of any compiler. Google currently provides toolchains for C and C++, but folks have been working on Go ports, Lua, Python etc. Haskell, in fact, already has a LLVM backend so porting that to emit PNaCl bitcode should not, in theory, be overly hard.

sanxiyn on Nov 13, 2013 [–]

Doesn't Haskell's LLVM backend depend on custom LLVM calling convention to do tail call? Does PNaCl bitcode support tail call?

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