ChrisK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Achim Schneider wrote: > > Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> jwlato: > >>> In addition to STM, another item that should interest serious > >>> programmers is forkIO. Lightweight threads that (unlike in > >>> Python) can use multiple cpu's. Coming from Python, I personally > >>> appreciate this. Using STM to handle concurrency issues often > >>> greatly simplifies multithreaded code. > >> And further on this, the use of `par` in pure code to make it go > >> multicore is way beyond what most people think is possible. > >> > > I said _don't_ make me think of using par on a beowolf cluster of > > ps3's. Don't you guys have any scruples? > > > > Well... ghc still has a single-threaded garbage collector, so all the > "par" threads must stop for garbage collection. So scaling to the > level of a cluster would be significantly sub-linear. > "By the time you learnt how to write proper Haskell, that's most likely implemented in an arcane one-liner using par."
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