References for GHC usage of multiple capabilities

[Artem Pelenitsyn]

Thanks for heads up, Ben! This is useful stuff to take into account. I also
wonder how is this list (mine ++ yours) is relevant to what GHC actually
has these days. But maybe that's harder to answer quickly.

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Best wishes,
Artem




On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:47 AM Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:

> Artem Pelenitsyn <a.pelenitsyn at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello devs,
> >
> > I've been working on a short survey devoted to a topic of multithreading
> > inside the GHC compiler and runtime. So far I was mostly looking at the
> > following three papers
> >
> > [1] P. W. Trinder, K. Hammond, J. S. Mattson, Jr., A. S. Partridge, and
> S.
> > L. Peyton Jones. Gum: A portable parallel implementation of Haskell.
> PLDI
> > ’96
> >
> > [2] Tim Harris, Simon Marlow, and Simon Peyton Jones. Haskell on a
> > shared-memory multiprocessor. Haskell ’05
> >
> > [3] Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Satnam Singh. Runtime support
> for
> > multicore Haskell. ICFP ’09
> >
> > Can you suggest any other papers adding insights on how GHC uses multiple
> > capabilities for anything from GC to the implementation of
> > Parallel/Concurrent Haskell? Perhaps, something more recent than the
> above,
> > but preferably published in academic venues.
> >
> Here are a few others but I may have missed a few:
>
>  * Parallel Generational-Copying Garbage Collection with a
> Block-Structured Heap (Simon Marlow, Tim Harris, Roshan P. James, Simon
> Peyton Jones) In ISMM '08: Proceedings of the 7th international symposium
> on Memory management, Tucson, Arizona, ACM, June 2008
>  * Concurrent Haskell, Simon Peyton Jones, Andrew Gordon, Sigbjorn Finne.
>  * Composable Memory Transactions, Tim Harris, Simon Marlow, Simon
> Peyton-Jones, and Maurice Herlihy. In Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGPLAN
> symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming (PPoPP '05)
>  * Transactional Memory with Data Invariants, Tim Harris and Simon Peyton
> Jones. In TRANSACT '06
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
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