Compiler modes / FFI / forcing CPP

2009-04-29 Thread Philip Hölzenspies
Dear GHC-ers, From earlier questions, it seems no one wants to get down and dirty with linker tricks in ghc. I'm now looking over an alternative solution. I'm currently trying to use SDL. There's a wrapper on hackage, which works fine under Linux, but it takes some tinkering under Mac OS X,

Re: Multicore Haskell user experiences

2009-04-29 Thread Don Stewart
Hey Scott, Yes, I think this is the appropriate place. The Data Parallel Haskell team, and the GHC rts team are watching! -- Don scooter.phd: > [Sorry if this is the wrong place to hold this discussion... I'll move > it if told to do so...] > > Simon P-J (et. al.) did recently publish a paper

Multicore Haskell user experiences

2009-04-29 Thread Scott Michel
[Sorry if this is the wrong place to hold this discussion... I'll move it if told to do so...] Simon P-J (et. al.) did recently publish a paper on making the Haskell runtime more multicore friendly, addressing the GC issue (among many things.) More broadly, though, there are two opportunities for