Functional languages and very fine grained parallelism: Initial results (1994)
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@TECHREPORT{Mountjoy94functionallanguages,
author = {Jon Mountjoy and Marcel Beemster},
title = {Functional languages and very fine grained parallelism: Initial results},
institution = {},
year = {1994}
}
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Abstract
A functional language compiler can be used as a powerful tool in the scheduling of programs for hardware capable of fine grained instruction level parallelism. There have been many attempts to effectively utilise functional languages as a means of easily programming parallel hardware. These attempts have generally concentrated on parallelising the underlying reduction strategies to achieve this goal. This paper explores an alternative use of a functional language compiler; as a tool for producing annotated code which can be effectively scheduled for the class of transport triggered architectures. These architectures are capable of much fine grained instruction level parallelism, and it is the task of the compiler to schedule code to utilise this power, in a manner similar to that of a compiler for a VLIW architecture. We believe that a functional language compiler has more freedom in the generation of code than imperative language compilers, due to the level of abstraction provided by ...
