Tomasz Zielonka writes: >> wc :: String -> (Int, Int, Int) >> wc file = ( length (lines file) >> , length (words file) >> , length file >> ) > > I have a crazy idea: what if we computed all three length > applications concurrently, with the RTS preempting the > thread when it generates too much unreclaimable nodes?
That's a pretty good idea, actually. What is the state of the 'par' primitive in GHC 6.x? Now that I think of it, it seems that adding a proper "compute in parallel" annotation could make a big difference in this case. Peter _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
