New trac policy

2010-04-30 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, We have made some changes to the way in which we use trac, our bug tracker. The details are all documented here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions#TheBugTracker but the highlights are below. We no longer have branch milestones (like 6.12-branch). Instead, w

Re: Parallel Haskell: 2-year project to push real world use

2010-04-30 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 10:25 -0400, Tyson Whitehead wrote: > On April 30, 2010 06:32:55 Duncan Coutts wrote: > > In the last few years GHC has gained impressive support for parallel > > programming on commodity multi-core systems. In addition to traditional > > threads and shared variables, it suppo

Re: Parallel Haskell: 2-year project to push real world use

2010-04-30 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On April 30, 2010 06:32:55 Duncan Coutts wrote: > In the last few years GHC has gained impressive support for parallel > programming on commodity multi-core systems. In addition to traditional > threads and shared variables, it supports pure parallelism, software > transactional memory (STM), and d

Parallel Haskell: 2-year project to push real world use

2010-04-30 Thread Duncan Coutts
GHC HQ and Well-Typed are very pleased to announce a 2-year project funded by Microsoft Research to push the real-world adoption and practical development of parallel Haskell with GHC. We are seeking organisations to take part: read on for details. In the last few years GHC has gained impressive

Re: Default value for numCapabilities?

2010-04-30 Thread Simon Marlow
On 28/04/2010 10:25, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote: Can the documentation for forkProcess be fixed then? Instead of "forkProcess comes with a giant warning..." it could say: "forkProcess is not supported by GHC in multicore setting". Yes, will do. Cheers, Simon