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From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
To: "'Brian Hurt'" <bhurt@spnz.org>
Cc: "'Caml List'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Purity and lazyness
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 16:11:16 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01d001cbb017$d9369340$8ba3b9c0$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1101071344150.7793@sergyar>

Brian Hurt wrote:
> Unless there is some other driver to keep things pure even while being
> strict.  And I would argue there is- concurrency.  Concurrency has a
> lot
> of similarities with laziness, in that the ordering of computations can
> be
> (and often is) undefined, with all the fun that entails.  Haskell is
> really good at multithreaded because it has already "paid the price" of
> dealing with asynchronous computations.

I agree except for "Haskell is really good at multithreaded" because, space
leaks aside, getting Haskell to force lazy computations at the necessary
times to take advantage of multithreading is usually a nightmare.

Cheers,
Jon.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-09 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-07 15:35 Dario Teixeira
2011-01-07 16:07 ` Damien Doligez
2011-01-07 16:38   ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2011-01-07 18:16     ` Holger Weiß
2011-01-07 20:22     ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-07 20:29       ` orbitz
2011-01-07 20:30         ` Joel Reymont
2011-01-07 20:33         ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-08  9:44     ` Jesper Louis Andersen
2011-01-07 17:21 ` Alain Frisch
2011-01-07 17:46   ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-01-07 18:11 ` Holger Weiß
2011-01-07 18:52   ` Brian Hurt
2011-01-07 19:32     ` Petter Urkedal
2011-01-07 20:25     ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-09 16:11     ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2011-01-10  6:27       ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-07 19:17 ` Florian Weimer
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTikxCSQ+0XkOmSVDb3EWq_2oQ0pac3bDgc7f7jq+@mail.gmail.com>
2011-01-07 20:52     ` bluestorm
2011-01-09 16:15       ` Jon Harrop
2011-01-08  0:26   ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2011-01-08  9:28     ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-01-08 22:47     ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-09 10:00       ` Petter Urkedal

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