[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hughes' parallel annotations for fixing a space leak

2010-04-22 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Leon Smith wrote: Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: which were introduced by John Hughes in his Phd thesis from 1983. They are intriguing! Unfortunately, I haven't been able to procure a copy of Hughes' thesis, either electronic or in paper. :( Can anyone help? Are there any other resources about this

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hughes' parallel annotations for fixing a space leak

2010-04-05 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Max Bolingbroke wrote: Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: As I understand it, GHC implements the technique from Sparud's paper, so this is a solved problem. This is not my understanding. As far as I know, the STG machine has a special notion of selector thunks, which represent projections from