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>> - We might finally get concurrent GC too.
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> amazing news, huh?
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> concurrent GC is almost as hard as solving a halting problem... ;p
Have *you* tried it? :-P
Seriously, analysing the structure of a huge chunk of data while it's
still being modified is no picnic.
>> - Microsoft Research is funding further development of Haskell's
>> parallel capabilities. (!) There's some talk of an MPI binding.
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> that SPJ guy sure has some ballz.
I said MSR is funding it. I didn't say why. It might be nothing to do
with SPJ. There /are/ other people getting paid to use Haskell, you
know. ;-)
>> + There's a big long paper about The Reduceron. It's basically an FPGA
>> processor for running Haskell (or something like it).
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> whoa!
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> how about an OpenCL port. ;)
Oh, I gather somebody's doing that for their PhD thesis...
But still, modern CPUs are especially designed for the way normal
programs work. Functional programs work in a totally different way;
maybe by designing the hardware differently, it can go faster? It's
worth at least trying it out to see how it goes.
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