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A comment on Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution (2009) [video].

Re:Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution (2009) ... by platz on Friday August 10, 2018 @10:38AM (#17733599)
I enjoyed this talk along the same lines by Guy Steele, regarding not necessarily forcing a sequential solution to a non-sequential problem:

Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftcIcn8AmSY

Look for steps that are commutative and/or associative in the problem to exploit parallelism.

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Re:Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution (2009) ... by hood_syntax on Friday August 10, 2018 @10:56AM (#17733786)
Monoids will save the world
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Re:Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution (2009) ... by AboutTheWhisles on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:53AM (#17734446)
They've been around for 30 years.
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Re:Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution (2009) ... by bordercases on Friday August 10, 2018 @12:03PM (#17734540)
They've been hard to communicate by amateurs
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Re:Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution (2009) ... by hood_syntax on Friday August 10, 2018 @12:04PM (#17734552)
Don't worry, it'll be any day now.
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