[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: version 0.7 of monad-parallel, monad-coroutine and SCC

[Mario Blažević]

Packages monad-parallel [1], monad-coroutine [2] and SCC [3] have been 
upgraded on Hackage to version 0.7.

     The monad-parallel library defines two Monad subclasses, 
MonadParallel and MonadFork, that enable some monadic computations to be 
executed in parallel and their results combined. The library also 
exports a subset of the Control.Monad interface (ap, sequence, and 
related functions), adjusted to exploit the parallelism. The new version 
of the library adds several more instances of these classes.

     The monad-coroutine library exports a generic monad transformer 
Coroutine: Functor s => MonadTrans (Coroutine s). A 
Coroutine-transformed monad can suspend at any point, returning its 
resumption wrapped in the functor s.

     The new release of monad-coroutine makes Coroutine an instance of 
Functor and Applicative classes. It also adds support for 
inter-coroutine communication through chunks parsed by the 
incremental-parser library [4].

     The new version of Streaming Component Combinators (a.k.a. SCC) 
relies the aforementioned incremental-parser support to some good 
effect. Many coroutine components have been simplified and sped up by 
~30% on average.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-parallel-0.7
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-coroutine-0.7
[3] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/scc-0.7
[4] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/incremental-parser-0.1