[Haskell-cafe] Go parallel

[Don Stewart]

timd:
> Is it possible to use the forkIO primitive to cause pure computations
> to be evaluated in parallel threads?
> 
> It seems to me that laziness would always prevent any evaluation until
> the result was used in a consuming thread (and hence would occur
> serially, in that thread).

Try `par` and friends in Control.Parallel. You can also build
referentially transparent worker gangs on top of forkIO.

--  Don