[Haskell-cafe] Proof of a multi-threaded application

[Tim Docker]

Ketil Malde wrote:

> My apologies for side-tracking, but does anybody have performance
> numbers for STM? I have an application waiting to be written using
> STM, boldly parallelizing where no man has parallelized before, but
> if it doesn't make it faster, the whole excercise gets a lot less
> convincing.  Most material I find seems to be of the proof-of-concept
> kind. 

Faster than what? I've used STM for a real application, and the main
benefit I saw was in using a set of primitives that facilitate writing
concurrent code that is clearer and more likely to be correct.
Performance is fine - given it is IO bound, the time taken by STM is not
an issue in this case. 

Are you considering using STM just to make otherwise pure code run in
parallel on multiple cores?  If so, then perhaps the pure
parallelisation
primitives are more appropriate.

Tim