[Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

[Andrew Coppin]

Hugh Perkins wrote:
> Yeah I agree with this.  C# totally rocks, but threading is an 
> unsolved problem.

I have repeatedly attempted to discover what C# actually is, all to no 
avail. Still, that probably means I don't need it...

> If you can get to the stage where you can get a non-optimized, 
> readable/maintainable Haskell program to run at more than say 30% of 
> the speed of a non-optimized, readable/maintainable C# program, but 
> automatically runs across 16 or 256 cores, then you're on to a winner.

Hint: If you can get readable/maintainable Haskell to run on more than 
one core "automatically", you're onto something pretty special. ;-)