On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Brandon Moore <brandon_m_mo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm confused by this as well. Parallelizing --make was one of the > first case studies in the smp runtime paper, section 7 in > Haskell on a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor > > There's also a trac ticket > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/910with a vague comment that the > patch from the paper > "almost certainly isn't ready for prime time", > but I haven't > seen any description of specific problems.
>From what I remember someone tried to parallelize GHC but it turned out to me tricky in practice. At the moment very trying to parallelize Cabal which would allow us to build packages/modules in parallel using ghc -c and let Cabal handle dependency management (including preprocessing of .hsc files). Johan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
