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Naira is a compiler for a parallel dialect of Haskell, compiling to a graph-reducing parallel abstract machine with a strong dataflow influence. Unusually (perhaps even uniquely), Naira has itself been parallelised using state-of-the-art tools developed at Glasgow and St Andrews Universities. Thus Naira is a parallel, parallelising compiler in one. This paper reports initial performance results that have been obtained using the GranSim simulator, both for the top-level pipeline and for individual compilation stages. We show that a modest but useful degree of parallelism can be achieved even for a distributed-memory machine. The simulation results have been verified on a network of distributed workstations using the GUM parallel implementation of Haskell.
Supported by the Federal Government of Nigeria under Federal Scholarship Scheme. I also acknowledge the support of Islamic Relief, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
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Junaidu, S., Davie, A., Hammond, K. (1998). Naira: A parallel 2Haskell compiler. In: Clack, C., Hammond, K., Davie, T. (eds) Implementation of Functional Languages. IFL 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1467. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055433
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