[Haskell-cafe] idea for avoiding temporaries

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 10:09:05 EST 2007


Hello Claus,

Saturday, March 10, 2007, 4:36:22 AM, you wrote:

> ah, ok, i'm not used to thinking in such scales;-) (perhaps you should get in touch
> with those SAC people, after all - i don't know what their state of play is, but
> many years ago, they started in an office near mine, and they were definitely
> thinking about large arrays, even about how to distribute them, and computations
> on them;

last days i learned details of google's MapReduce system. seems that
this approach is very interesting for dealing with large arrays. files
(arrays) are splitted into chunks, operations are splitted into
chunks, too. afaik, some C compilers are already able to automatically
split vector operations into several threads? at least, it will be
interesting to implement same technique for GHC, may be just in form
of library, like google does

-- 
Best regards,
 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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