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Re:Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters by wladimir on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @01:52PM (#2276663)
An argument for functional programming languages that I've heard many times is that they can be optimized very well for (automatic) multi-core parallelism and even GPUs.

But I've never found any actual examples, evidence or benchmarks showing this in practice.

Anyone have any pointers on this?

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Re:Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters by eru on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @02:19PM (#2276800)
You should listen to Guy Steele's talk he gave on 2009's ICFP: "Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution: or, foldl and foldr Considered Slightly Harmful" (http://www.vimeo.com/6624203).

He drives the point home, and adds that you also need appropriate data structures.

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