Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Tim Sweeney (the gamer)

barsoap:

"Sebastian Sylvan" wrote:

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Concurrency does seem pretty disruptive.

Yes, the thought of using par on a dual quad-core makes me salivate.

Haskell is (in a very small part) driving sales of multicore boxes -- I've met half a dozen people who nominated Haskell's multicore support as a deciding reason to explicit get a multi-core box. Maybe we need to get some kickbacks from the hardware vendors, for helping their sales :) Intel, AMD, Nvidia -- are you guys listening?? In return, we can improve the parallelism support further. --Don