[Haskell-cafe] Unboxed arrays

[Janis Voigtlaender]

Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
> 
>> * Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> [2008-03-26 12:37:53+0000]
>>  
>>
>>> Any insights here?
>>>     
>>
>>
>> Could Data Parallel Haskell[1] be useful for you?
>> It was designed for parallel computation, but it includes unboxed
>> arrays, nice list-like syntax and array comprehensions.
>>
>>   1. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Data_Parallel_Haskell
>>   
> 
> 
> Mmm, maybe. Does it implement unboxed arrays for arbitrary types?
> 
> For that matter, it seems like this NDP stuff has been "in development" 
> for a seemingly long time now. Does anybody know what the current status 
> is? 

Google -> http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/ndp/

> (I'm guessing the people working on this are more interested in 
> working on it than documenting every step of their progress... which 
> leaves outsiders with the impression that nothing is happening.)

I don't think the above suggests that "nothing is happening" ...

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