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One of the main advantages of the purity that Haskell embodies is the ability to run code in parallel easily. The absence of side effects means that all data dependencies are explicit in the code. Thus, the compiler (and you) can schedule different tasks with no dependencies between them to be performed in parallel.
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Mena, A.S. (2014). Working in Several Cores. In: Beginning Haskell. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6251-0_8
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