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Re:Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell by chii on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:02AM (#21268096)
The Haskell version is provably going to work without issue when parrellelized (due to monoid laws), but I doubt the concurrency primitives in C is as trivially usable, and I expect no sane person would want to write that version.
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Re:Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell by cormacrelf on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:26AM (#21268542)
There's nothing stopping you from following the monoid laws in C. There is also nothing stopping you from breaking the monoid laws in Haskell.
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Re:Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell by sasasassy on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:09AM (#21268437)
OpenMP IS trivially usable.
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Re:Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell by keldaris on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:36AM (#21268275)
Why? This is not a hard problem and there's nothing wrong with parallelism in C. I'd much rather work on parallelizing the C code than deal with any amount of Haskell. I suspect there are more people who would agree with me than the total amount of people happy to write Haskell.
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