There's some exciting preliminary experimentation doing an x32 abi variant for GHC (Haskell). The benchmarks with the hacky first attempt yielded a 15% perf boo

There's some exciting preliminary experimentation doing an x32 abi variant for GHC (Haskell). The benchmarks with the hacky first attempt yielded a 15% perf boost. I'm hoping that an x32 variant with largish heap support will be in the ghc 7.10 release (which won't be for another 8-12 months). Btw: ghc always welcomes new contributors! Getting started can be as simple as trying to build ghc HEAD on your favorite platform and reporting any test suite bugs or bugs in your own experimentation. If you get stuck or confused, the ghc irc channel on freenode is full of folks happy to help out too!