[Haskell] par and forkIO

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Essentially not at present; but it's high on our list.  Because of the
fun we've been having with Software Transactional Memory (STM), which
will be in GHC 6.4, and because of the multi-core machines that are
coming right now, Simon and I are starting to think much more about
genuine hardware concurrency, esp on multi-cores.  We have not actually
done anything yet, but I think we will soon.

STM is described in a PPoPP paper on my home page
	http://research.microsoft.com/%7Esimonpj/papers/stm/index.htm
	
Simon

| -----Original Message-----
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| Jacobson
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| Subject: [Haskell] par and forkIO
| 
| Multicore and multi-cpu machines are getting more and more common.
| 
| e.g. http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2354&p=2
| and
|
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=38887&
liArticleTypeID=1&liCategory
| ID=1&liChannelID=114&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1
| 
| Do the current implementations of par and forkIO in e.g. GHC take
| advantage multiple CPUs/cores or is special plumbing needed (GPH?)?
| 
| -Alex-
| 
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