Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 5

2011-08-31 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:39, Eric Y. Kow wrote: > (Food for thought: why `parList rseq` instead of `parList r0`? > Reply to the Haskell-Cafe posting if you think you know why!) > Because with `r0` you're liable to just parallel evaluate to the thunk containing the computation you're trying to

[Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 5

2011-08-31 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Parallel Haskell Digest === Edition 5 2011-08-31 Hello Haskellers! Eric here, reprising my role as Parallel Haskell Digester. Many thanks to Nick for good stewardship of the digest and nice new directions for the future. This month we have Erlang PhDs (and a postdoc), new pa