RE: [Haskell-cafe] transparent parallelization

2007-09-19 Thread Tim Harris (RESEARCH)
> The problem with Haskell is not finding opportunities to parallelize, > they are legion. Actually, quite the opposite, there's so much that your > code ends up slower than a sequential realization. The hard part is > making a good cost-model and a good way to create coarser chunks of > work. It

Re: [Haskell-cafe] transparent parallelization

2007-09-18 Thread Derek Elkins
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:13 +0200, Thomas Girod wrote: > Hi there. Beeing rather new to the realm of Haskell and functional > programming, I've been reading about "how is easier it is to > parallelize code in a purely functional language" (am I right saying > that ?). > > My knowledge of paralleli

Re: [Haskell-cafe] transparent parallelization

2007-09-18 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
On Sep 18, 2007, at 4:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Data_Parallel_Haskell Wow this is cool stuff! It would be nice to have something like this for the Playstation 3 :-) Regarding parallelism, I wander how this extension will compa

Re: [Haskell-cafe] transparent parallelization

2007-09-18 Thread Dave Tapley
If I recall correctly a rather neat way of exploiting this property of qsort is exploited with Nested Data Parallelism and covered in this talk: http://www.londonhug.net/2007/05/25/video-of-spjs-talk-is-now-online/ Good food for thought :) Dave, On 18/09/2007, Thomas Girod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

RE: [Haskell-cafe] transparent parallelization

2007-09-18 Thread bf3
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Data_Parallel_Haskell Wow this is cool stuff! It would be nice to have something like this for the Playstation 3 :-) Regarding parallelism, I wander how this extension will compare to Sun's Fortress language, if/when it gets finally released. Peter __

Re: [Haskell-cafe] transparent parallelization

2007-09-18 Thread Thomas Schilling
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:13 +0200, Thomas Girod wrote: > Hi there. Beeing rather new to the realm of Haskell and functional > programming, I've been reading about "how is easier it is to > parallelize code in a purely functional language" (am I right saying > that ?). > > My knowledge of paralleli

[Haskell-cafe] transparent parallelization

2007-09-18 Thread Thomas Girod
Hi there. Beeing rather new to the realm of Haskell and functional programming, I've been reading about "how is easier it is to parallelize code in a purely functional language" (am I right saying that ?). My knowledge of parallelization is also very weak, but I've been thinking about this and I h