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| author | Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-03-29 22:43:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-03-29 22:43:58 +0000 |
| commit | bd8d410bbe561cb06cef8e6439398148ea172996 (patch) | |
| tree | bb6acd9e4d75e5dd918d3f6f723ca485c7f0dd6f /devel/hs-monad-par/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 18f2b16087e8ecd6790e8d551f1083d977da1d77 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | devel/hs-monad-par/pkg-descr | 10 |
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diff --git a/devel/hs-monad-par/pkg-descr b/devel/hs-monad-par/pkg-descr index 67b988eb2063..0c9cedb71b19 100644 --- a/devel/hs-monad-par/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/hs-monad-par/pkg-descr @@ -1,9 +1,5 @@ -This library offers an alternative parallel programming API to that -provided by the 'parallel' package. The Par monad allows the simple -description of parallel computations, and can be used to add parallelism -to pure Haskell code. The basic API is straightforward: the monad -supports forking and simple communication in terms of IVars. The library -comes with an efficient work-stealing implementation, but the internals -are also exposed so that you can build your own scheduler if necessary. +The Par monad offers a simple API for parallel programming. The library +works for parallelising both pure and IO computations, although only the +pure version is deterministic. WWW: http://github.com/simonmar/monad-par |