[Haskell-cafe] Haskell vs GC'd imperative languages, threading, parallelizeability (is that a word? :-D )

[Andrew Coppin]

Spencer Janssen wrote:
> On Friday 10 August 2007 12:37:31 Andrew Coppin wrote:
>   
>> Stefan O'Rear wrote:
>>     
>>> Bool is 32 bits, but Don is using UArray.  UArray is not parametric in
>>> the element type.
>>>       
>> Would be nice if it *could* somehow be parametric... but I have
>> absolutely no idea how you'd do that. The transformation is self-evident
>> enough to a human, but how do you explain it to a machine?
>>     
>
>
> Check out the various papers, slides, and talks on NDP/parrallel arrays.  
> There's much discussion on schemes to efficiently pack data types into 
> unboxed arrays.
>   

NDP is like Christmas! So many boxes of goodies to open... but it takes 
so long to come around... :-(