Ravi Nanavati wrote:
It isn't an immediately pressing need a Bluespec, but we do get asked
every once in a while about parallelizing the Bluespec compiler.
Roshan James was working on parallel GC at MSR Cambridge last year.
Unfortunately, it's not an internship-sized project.
One
of the technical reasons we're holding off on that front is that it
wouldn't win as much as people expect (because garbage collection is
usually a decent fraction of a typical run), so we'd be interested if
the state-of-play in that area changed.
I think that the need for it will become more pressing among GHC's
developers as the NPH work matures, as the current GC reduces
performance even on two CPUs. The need to publish good numbers is
always a helpful motivator :-)
<b
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