T Willingham
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