The Glasgow Haskell Compiler and LLVM

If you read the LLVM 2.7 release notes carefully you would have noticed that one of the new external users is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). As the author of the LLVM backend for GHC, I have been invited to write a post detailing the design of the backend and my experiences with using LLVM. This is that post :). I began work on the backend around July last year, undertaking it as part of an h