Hi, thank you very much Simon & Don, for the answers.
The latest head gives great results on parallel programs. All cores are now always at work as I hoped for. So, too, thanks to everybody involved in the multicore improvements -- they should come very handy. :-) Thanks again, Christian * Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> [30.03.2009 19:02]: > choener: > > Hi, > > > > having tried the 6.10.2rc1 release candidate, I still find that "parMap > > rnf xs" on a list of thunks xs does not optimally use all available > > processors. With N the number of cores, I still see that each block of N > > thunks (say: x_1 and x_2) has to be calculated before (x3 and x4) will be > > started. > > > > Would there be hope that compiling the latest head instead of 2009/03/14 > > (rc1) gives better results? > > > > Yes, definitely. The HEAD implements all the `par` improvements > described in the recent "multicore runtime" paper, as well as giving > detailed runtime statistics on spark use.
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