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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> So this benchmark is primarily a stress test of the parallel garbage<BR>
> collector since it is GC that is taking 75-80% of the time. Note that<BR>
> the mutator elapsed time goes down slightly with 2 cores compared to 1<BR>
> however the GC elapsed time goes up slightly.<BR>
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Thanks Duncan, Jake et al. I'm more familiar with MPI and OpenMP for<BR>
parallelism; it seems I've got a lot more thinking to do when it comes<BR>
to Haskell. I'll look at some more tutorials, and then most likely<BR>
Data Parallel Haskell.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Paul</FONT>
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