Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution (2009) [video]

platz · on Aug 10, 2018

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.

hood_syntax · on Aug 10, 2018

Monoids will save the world

AboutTheWhisles · on Aug 10, 2018

They've been around for 30 years.

bordercases · on Aug 10, 2018

They've been hard to communicate by amateurs

hood_syntax · on Aug 10, 2018

Don't worry, it'll be any day now.

kasajian · on Aug 10, 2018

I didn't look to see when this video was made. As soon as the talk started about how, you have to use functional languages because of multi-core, to take advantage of parallelism, I immediately thought to myself, what is this 2008?

I was wrong. It's 2009.

We've moved on.

We've learned about Functional languages. It has helped.

It didn't solve the multi-core problem anyway even close to what was implied.