[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Google Summer of Code student application period opens today

[Vo Minh Thu]

2011/4/5 Christopher Done <chrisdone at googlemail.com>:
> On 5 April 2011 15:17, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot at marcot.eti.br>
> wrote:
>>
>> I plan to apply to the Google Summer of Code, to work on the
>> parallelization of
>> Cabal Install.  As stated in some comments, this project may be too small
>> for
>> three months, so I included some other things in my proposal.  The first
>> is to
>> work on making GHC parallel while building different modules.
>
> I'm sure everyone is eager to have a parallel GHC and parallel Cabal. I am.
> Waiting for 67 modules to build in order every time I change my types file
> is not fun.

You should parallelize yourself instead; while one thread is stuck
waiting for GHC or Cabal, the other ones can have fun.