On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What would it take to implement a -j equivalent for, say, GHC? Or if >> this is not possible, what is wrong with my reasoning? > > problem is that make have rather large pices of work which it can run > parallel. if ghc will try to parallel every machine operation, it will > pend more time maintaining these jobs. 'par' is just the way to tell > GHC "this part of job is large enough"
Right, but couldn't the Haskell complier+runtime discover "rather large pieces of work"? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe