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mietek on Dec 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why have CPUs been limited in frequency to around ...

Indeed, there is a pool of OS threads, a pool of Haskell lightweight threads, and a spark pool. Check out these papers:

* Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell[1]

* Seq no more: Better Strategies for Parallel Haskell[2]

[1]: http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/multicore-ghc....

[2]: http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/strategies.pdf

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