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Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Kevin Hammond

    1. Division of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrew, Fife, UK

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  2. Greg Michaelson

    1. Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, UK

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  • It contains an extensively researched bibliography which will be invaluable to anyone researching this and related topics

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVI
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  2. Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Kevin Hammond, Greg Michaelson
      Pages 3-29

    3. Foundations

      • Greg Michaelson, Kevin Hammond, Chris Clack
      Pages 31-61

    4. Programming Language Constructs

      • Rita Loogen
      Pages 63-92

    5. Proof

      • Simon J. Thompson
      Pages 93-119

    6. Realisations for Strict Languages

      • Werner Kluge
      Pages 121-148

    7. Realisations for Non-Strict Languages

      • Chris Clack
      Pages 149-187

  3. Current Research Areas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Data Parallelism

      • John O’Donnell
      Pages 191-206

    3. Cost Modelling

      • David Skillicorn
      Pages 207-218

    4. Shaping Distributions

      • C. Barry Jay
      Pages 219-232

    5. Performance Monitoring

      • Nathan Charles, Colin Runciman
      Pages 233-246

    6. Memory Performance of Dataflow Programs

      • A. P. Willem Böhm, Jeffrey P. Hammes
      Pages 247-265

    7. Portability of Performance in the BSP Model

      • Jonathan Hill
      Pages 267-287

    8. Algorithmic Skeletons

      • Murray Cole
      Pages 289-303

    9. Coordination Languages

      • Paul Kelly, Frank Taylor
      Pages 305-321

    10. Parallel and Distributed Programming in Concurrent Clean

      • Rinus Plasmeijer, Marko van Eekelen, Marco Pil, Pascal Serrarens
      Pages 323-338

    11. Functional Process Modelling

      • Ali Abdallah
      Pages 339-360

    12. Validating Programs in Concurrent ML

      • Flemming Nielson
      Pages 361-378
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About this book

Programming is hard. Building a large program is like constructing a steam locomotive through a hole the size of a postage stamp. An artefact that is the fruit of hundreds of person-years is only ever seen by anyone through a lOO-line window. In some ways it is astonishing that such large systems work at all. But parallel programming is much, much harder. There are so many more things to go wrong. Debugging is a nightmare. A bug that shows up on one run may never happen when you are looking for it - but unfailingly returns as soon as your attention moves elsewhere. A large fraction of the program's code can be made up of marshalling and coordination algorithms. The core application can easily be obscured by a maze of plumbing. Functional programming is a radical, elegant, high-level attack on the programming problem. Radical, because it dramatically eschews side-effects; elegant, because of its close connection with mathematics; high-level, be­ cause you can say a lot in one line. But functional programming is definitely not (yet) mainstream. That's the trouble with radical approaches: it's hard for them to break through and become mainstream. But that doesn't make functional programming any less fun, and it has turned out to be a won­ derful laboratory for rich type systems, automatic garbage collection, object models, and other stuff that has made the jump into the mainstream.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrew, Fife, UK

    Kevin Hammond

  • Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, UK

    Greg Michaelson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming

  • Editors: Kevin Hammond, Greg Michaelson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0841-2

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-092-7Published: 01 November 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0841-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 496

  • Topics: Programming Techniques, Computer System Implementation

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