[Haskell-cafe] Parallel + exceptions

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Mon Jun 25 14:38:03 EDT 2007


Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
> On 6/23/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> It's nice that you can have millions of threads if you want to do
>> something very "concurrent". What I tend to want is "parallel" - doing
>> stuff that *could* be done in a single thread, but I want it to go
>> faster using my big mighty multicore box. As I understand it, you have
>> to do something "special" to make that happen...?
>
> Have you seen this paper?
> http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/papers/html/Strategies/strategies.html
>
> It's probably want you want, I think.
>

Well, it certainly looks interesting... thanks.



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