Re: [Haskell] Implicit parallel functional programming

2005-01-19 Thread mgross
Having donned my flame-resistant suit, I am going to venture that I think the differences of opinion in the posts copied below are in large part the result of people talking about different things at the same time. First, there is a claim that functional languages facilitate parallel execution,

Re: [Haskell] Implicit parallel functional programming

2005-01-18 Thread mgross
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Satnam Singh wrote: I'm trying to find out about existing work on implicit parallel functional programming. I see that the Glasgow Haskell compiler has a parallel mode which can be used with PVM and there is interesting work with pH at MIT. Does anyone know of any

Re: About Haskell Thread Model

2003-10-13 Thread mgross
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Wolfgang Thaller wrote: Do you have some experience or knowledge about Parallel Haskell? And Parallel Haskell runs, but there are problems. Unless someone has slipped something past me, there is no parallel implementation for Release 6 yet, so if you want to tinker

Re: Poll: How to respond to homework questions

2003-08-29 Thread mgross
(A) Give a perfect answer. (B) Give a subtly flawed answer. (C) Give an obfuscated answer. (D) Give a critique of what the questioner has tried so far. (E) Give relevant general advice without answering the specific question. As a general rule, I require any student who comes to me for

Seeking clues

2002-10-06 Thread mgross
I have now made several failed attempts to compile various versions of the fptools package with parallel support (way=mp). The Debian packages I have tried come in without the _mp libraries, and all of the different variations I have tried on building from source have failed with nasty errors

Re: GPH: RE: Concurrency and Haskell

2002-08-20 Thread mgross
To reduce the amount of duplication, I'm going to assume that everyone copied on your original note to me reads the list and copy only the list. If you know someone on the copy list who does not read the list, please tell me, and I will individually copy them on appropriate future e-mail. On

Re: GPH: RE: Concurrency and Haskell

2002-08-20 Thread mgross
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of GpH, I wonder how is GdH coming along? It seems that the installation instruction on http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gdh/ is still incomplete... As far as I know, Mosix has nothing to do with PVM, so am I right to say that GpH

Re: ANNOUNCE: hmake-3.06

2002-08-09 Thread mgross
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Malcolm Wallace wrote: hmake-3.06 -- We are pleased to announce a fresh, bugfix, release of hmake, the Haskell compilation manager. www.cs.york.ac.uk seems to be down. Does anyone know of a mirror

Re: Compiler problem or dumb mistake?

2002-02-03 Thread mgross
Further to my earlier post on the same subject: The problem seems to be not in my code, but in some sort of nasty interaction between thread dispatching, the trace function, and possibly, Gtk: It appears that trace dumps what is expected (indicating execution of functions that I thought

Re: Compiler problem or dumb error?

2002-02-03 Thread mgross
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Jay Cox wrote: If checkWid is never invoked, then possibly it is never forced to begin with, which I think means the bug is elsewhere in your code (or elsewhere). Which turns out to be the case, although I haven't pinned it down completely--please see my follow-up post

Compiler problem or dumb mistake?

2002-02-02 Thread mgross
Here's the problematic snippet, using GHC 5.00.2: mapWidList :: [(Int,Int,Bool)] - [WidNode] - Int- [WidNode] mapWidList showList widNodes seq --map (\x - (checkWid showList x (widNodes!!x))) -- [0 .. ((length widNodes) -1)]

Problem: invalid argument emitted by sendTo

2001-09-20 Thread mgross
I am using SocketPrim to send a udp packet to each of 254 addresses on a network. The message packets have been preconstructed and placed in a list, whose content has already been checked for correctness and appear to meet the specifications in the appropriate RFC. When I go through the list

Problem: invalid argument emitted by sendTo

2001-09-20 Thread mgross
Found the error. No need to follow up. Apologies to anyone who objects to mail that turns out not to need answering. Murray Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell