On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Chad Scherrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > T Willingham <t.r.willingham <at> gmail.com> writes: >> I am thinking of our troglodytic friend 'make', which will run (for >> example) 4 parallel jobs when given the option "make -j4". Even >> 'rake', the ruby version of make, now has a branch (called drake) >> which does the parallel -j option. > > >From the replies I've seen about this, I think it's been interpreted as > >asking > whether ghc could compile a given program so that it will execute in parallel. > In general that's a hard problem. > > On the other hand, it should be really straightforward (in principle, I mean) > to > get something going like > ghc --make -j4 Foo.hs > similar to your make example, so that compile time could be reduced, while the > execution could either be sequential or parallel. I don't think there's > anything > like this yet (is there?). > > Does anyone have any thought what it would take to get this going? > > Chad
I believe that's the one of the points of the hbuild project (see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HBuild). Alex _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
