[Haskell-cafe] The Price of Performance

[Joel Reymont]

I thought this would be of interest to the Haskell community:

http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=330

"The ever-growing popularity of small multiprocessors is exposing  
more programmers to parallel hardware. More tools to spot correctness  
and performance problems are becoming available (e.g., thread  
checkers8 and performance debuggers9). Also, a few expert programmers  
can write efficient threaded code that is in turn leveraged by many  
others. Fast-locking and thread-efficient memory allocation libraries  
are good examples of programming work that is highly leveraged."

Viva le STM!

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