[Haskell] FW: shootout on quad-core

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Wed Aug 13 04:13:20 EDT 2008


Yes, it would be interesting to see some of the benchmarks from the
parallel nofib used,

    http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/nofib/

simonpj:
> Friends: an opportunity spotted by Ulf.
> 
> Simon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ulf.wiger at gmail.com [mailto:ulf.wiger at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ulf Wiger
> Sent: 12 August 2008 16:33
> Subject: shootout on quad-core
> 
> The famous language shootout now has a quad-core architecture:
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all
> 
> So far, the maintainers have mainly focused on trying to get the build
> environment to work, and no real agreement exists on how to
> potentially expand the benchmark suite with multicore problems,
> or perhaps how to handle alternative entries on existing benchmarks.
> 
> I think they welcome suggestions. I imagine that several different
> categories exist:
> 
> - problems that naturally lend themselves to message-passing concurrency
> - obviously data parallel algorithms
> - problems that could be parallelized using a smart compiler
> 
> 
> BR,
> Ulf W
> 
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