can multi-core improve single funciton?

[Paul Rubin]

"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> writes:
> Even my Pentium I MMX 233MHz can compute fib(36) thousand of times faster
> than that with the right algorithm. So I don't see the point in
> parallelizing if you're going to get infinitely worse results...

The point is to test the parallelization scheme.  Recursive fibonacci
is a standard benchmark for this sort of thing.  Sturlamolden's test
may be inspired by a recent similar GHC test:

   http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/