From (sequential) Haskell to (parallel) Eden: An Implementation Point of View (1998)
| Venue: | In PLILP'98. Springer LNCS 1490 |
| Citations: | 19 - 11 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Breitinger98from(sequential),
author = {Silvia Breitinger and Ulrike Klusik and Rita Loogen},
title = {From (sequential) Haskell to (parallel) Eden: An Implementation Point of View},
booktitle = {In PLILP'98. Springer LNCS 1490},
year = {1998},
pages = {318--334},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Abstract
. The explicitly parallel programming language Eden adds a coordination level to the lazy functional language Haskell. This paper describes how a compiler and runtime system for Eden can incrementally be built on the basis of a compiler and runtime system for the computation language. The modifications needed in the compiler are restricted to specific orthogonal extensions. We show that Eden's design for distributed memory systems proves beneficial for the construction of a lean parallel runtime system. 1 Introduction Due to the side effect freedom of the reduction semantics of functional languages it is possible to evaluate independent subexpressions in arbitrary order or in parallel. This implicit parallelism is semantically transparent and allows the automatic parallelization of functional programs. In available parallel functional systems like the Glasgow parallel Haskell (GpH) system [17] or the Nijmegen CLEAN system [19] the programmer is asked to place annotations in programs. ...
