Invisible escreveu:
> + GHC 7.0 is in development, featuring more new bells & whistles than is 
> sane for any one system to have.
>   - The "Jenga" of the type checker has been replaced.
>   - Improvements to the inliner yield 80% speedups in some cases.
>   - There's a new LLVM backend.
>   - There's a new, faster I/O subsystem.
>   - A long-standing glitch with Parallel Strategies has been fixed. (And 
> in the process tonnes of new functionality is available.)
>   - There's work on improving numerical performance (finally!)
>   - I read a paper where somebody benchmarked the standard containers 
> library and managed to make it go about 25% faster.
>   - We might finally get concurrent GC too.

amazing news, huh?

concurrent GC is almost as hard as solving a halting problem... ;p

>   - Microsoft Research is funding further development of Haskell's 
> parallel capabilities. (!) There's some talk of an MPI binding.

that SPJ guy sure has some ballz.

> + There's a big long paper about The Reduceron. It's basically an FPGA 
> processor for running Haskell (or something like it).
>   - First there's a great long section where they explain their design 
> decisions and various theoretical benchmark results.
>   - Then they describe the actual design of the hardware, and the 
> various decisions they chose there, and what the final thing looks like.
>   - Finally they measure the performance of the thing. And it's not too 
> shabby. A program running on the Reduceron is about 4x slower than the 
> same program compiled with GHC and running on an Intel Core 2 Duo at 
> 3GHz. Which is very, very impressive when you consider that the 
> Reduceron runs at a piffling 96MHz. (!) On the other hand, no 
> floating-point support yet...

whoa!

how about an OpenCL port. ;)

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