<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If this code:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> f5Rslts = map (f5 (n-1) startingMinScore startingMaxScore (otherColor clr) 0) newBoards `using` parList rdeepseq</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> totalMoves = sum $ map snd f5Rslts -- Attempt at parallelization yielded no perf. improvement.</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">is yielding a fizzled spark ratio of about 0.3,</div><div class="">does it imply that the sum begins pulling from the list, before the sparks have had a chance to compute the first third of the list elements?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">-db</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>