[Haskell-cafe] a parallel mapM?

[Ozgur Akgun]

Hi,

On 3 October 2012 19:23, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:

> That said, I don't see a reason for not including a separate version of
>> runParIO :: ParIO a -> IO a for non-deterministic computations. It seems
>> really useful!
>>
>>
> Exactly.  I should have been more explicit but that's what I meant about
> "adding another module".  You would import Control.Monad.Par.IO and get
> runParIO + liftIO but NOT runPar.  This requires doing a newtype over Par
> to create the liftIO instance for one and not the other (and preserve Safe
> Haskell).  It's a pain but it's no problem.  Both types
> Control.Monad.Par.Par and Control.Monad.Par.IO.ParIO will expose the same
> interface (i.e. have instances of the same classes -- ParFuture,
> ParIVar...), so generic algorithms like "parMap" will still work for either.
>
>   -Ryan
>

This sounds like a great idea, I just wanted to ask if anyone is working on
it or not?

Thanks,
Ozgur
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