[Haskell-cafe] forkSequence, runPar, parallelize (was: Re: You are in a twisty maze of concurrency libraries, all different ...)

[Mario Blazevic]

	It appears there are several implementations existing on Hackage of the 
following function, in various disguises:

    runPar :: [IO a] -> IO [a]


the idea being that the IO computations are run in parallel, rather than 
sequentially. My own Streaming Component Combinators package contains a 
similar function, but somewhat generalized:


    class Monad m => ParallelizableMonad m where
       parallelize :: m a -> m b -> m (a, b)

    instance ParallelizableMonad IO  -- implemented using forkIO
    instance ParallelizableMonad Identity  -- implemented using par
    instance ParallelizableMonad Maybe  -- implemented using par


	Would there be any interest in having this class packaged in a separate 
library? If so, can you sugest a better name or some additional 
functionality?