One of the things I liked about Haskell was the notion of pure functions and
the fact that they can be, in theory, automatically parallelized on multicore
hardware. I think this will become a huge deal in a few years as cores
multiply. My question is simply this: under GHC is this what really happens
with, say a mapping over a pure function. Yes, I compiled with --threaded and
am using the +RTS -N2 options on my dual core machine. Here's the code I wrote
as a speed test. It just doesn't seem any faster with -N2. Using the ps
command I found that multiple threads are indeed launched (this is Linux) but
all but one show as being in a state of waiting for some event to finish (the
ps output flags them all 'Sl'.
main = do rg <- getStdGen
let rs = take 10000000 $ randomRs (1::Int,100000::Int) rg
rs'= map (\n -> n*n) rs
print rs'
_______________________________________________
Haskell-Cafe mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
