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From: mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: Program transformations for parallelism
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Date: 28 Nov 90 13:34:47 GMT
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In article <1824@xenon.kcl-cs.UUCP> ari@kcl-cs.UUCP (Ari_Pekka Laakkonen) writes:
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>I am looking for references to work on program transformations which are
>aimed at automatic parallelization of functional programs. Can anyone help
>with suggestions on the work done in this area?
>
Many algorithms are inherently sequential, and thus attempts
to parallelise programs based on them have proved disappointing.
I think a better approach is to develop new parallel
algorithms and implement them in your new parallel language.

Matthew Huntbach


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