Hi all It is often claimed that Haskell's referential transparency would make it an excellent choice for a high-level parallel language. Furthermore, IBM, Sony, and Toshiba's Cell processor is in great need of a high-level parallel language. Thus, they seem to be a perfect match. See http://www.research.ibm.com/cell/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_processor for more about the Cell processor. My knowledge of parallel programming is limited, but I would still like to know, what the wiser amongst of us, thinks of making a Haskell compiler for the Cell processor. It is not that I consider implementing one. It is just that I am curious. Is the Cell processor better suited, as a target for a parallel Haskell compiler than Intel, AMD, and Sun's multicore approaches? What I am asking here is, if it is easier to make use of the Cell's closely coupled but limited SPEs or it is easier to make use of the loosely couple but full-featured parallelism of multicore approaches. Is it realistic to think that a Haskell compiler targeting the Cell processor, could make use of it's parallelism without requiring huge changes to the source code of ones already existing meant-for-GHC programs? /Mads Lindstrøm