On 03/05/2010, at 22:04, Johan Tibell wrote:

> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> 
> wrote:
> | Does this mean DPH is ready for abuse?
> |
> | The wiki page sounds pretty tentative, but it looks like it's been awhile
> | since it's been updated.
> |
> | http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Data_Parallel_Haskell
> 
> In truth, nested data parallelism has taken longer than we'd hoped to be 
> ready for abuse :-).   We have not lost enthusiasm though -- Manual, Roman, 
> Gabi, Ben, and I talk on the phone each week about it.  I think we'll have 
> something usable by the end of the summer.
> 
> That's very encouraging! I think people (me included) have gotten the 
> impression that the project ran into problems so challenging that it stalled. 
> Perhaps a small status update once in a while would give people a better idea 
> of what's going on. :)

We keep running into challenging problems (the last one was a volcano) but we 
never stall. Things like the new GHC inliner, vector, repa are all part of DPH 
work.

Roman


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