Parallel Haskell: 2-year project to push real world use

Tyson Whitehead twhitehead at gmail.com
Fri Apr 30 10:25:48 EDT 2010


On April 30, 2010 06:32:55 Duncan Coutts wrote:
> In the last few years GHC has gained impressive support for parallel
> programming on commodity multi-core systems. In addition to traditional
> threads and shared variables, it supports pure parallelism, software
> transactional memory (STM), and data parallelism. With much of this
> research and development complete, and more on the way, the next stage
> is to get the technology into more widespread use.

Does this mean DPH is ready for abuse?

The wiki page sounds pretty tentative, but it looks like it's been awhile 
since it's been updated.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Data_Parallel_Haskell

Thanks!  -Tyson
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