Re: [Haskell-cafe] Basic questions about concurrency in Haskell

2009-08-07 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
Bringing the cafe back in. If I remember correctly tuning the GC is one of the things they worked on for the next release (in relation to parallelism).Here's a link to the paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/multicore-ghc.pdf You can allocate dynamic

[Haskell-cafe] Basic questions about concurrency in Haskell

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Witzel
Hello all, I'm new to Haskell, but have a good background in LISP/Scheme and do mostly C/C++ programming on a daily basis. I'm learning Haskell mainly because it provides facilities for concurrency on the language level, and I'm mainly interested in implementing parallel or massively parallel

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Basic questions about concurrency in Haskell

2009-08-05 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Thomas, Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 9:59:00 PM, you wrote: because it provides facilities for concurrency on the language level, and I'm mainly interested in implementing parallel or massively parallel algorithms with Haskell. I have two questions that bother me. if you plan to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Basic questions about concurrency in Haskell

2009-08-05 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Thomas Witzel witzel.tho...@gmail.comwrote: 2. I started with the very simple nfib example given in the manual for Control.Parallel (Section 7.18). On my systems using multiple cores makes the code actually slower than just using a single core. While the