[Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On 10/07/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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. ;-)

Soon, have a little patience :-)

See for example:
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/ndp/NdpSlides.pdf
http://research.microsoft.com/~tharris/papers/2007-fdip.pdf


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