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Parallelism and Concurrency

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Parallelism is a computing strategy that enables many computations (or the execution of processes) to be performed simultaneously. In this chapter, you will learn the basic elements of parallelism and concurrency in Haskell.

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  1. 1.

    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parallel

  2. 2.

    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.11.1.0/docs/Prelude.html#v:seq

  3. 3.

    Here’s an example taken from some older Haskell documentation:

    https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.3/docs/html/users_guide/parallel.html#parallel-haskell

  4. 4.

    https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/6.6.1/docs/html/libraries/base/Control-Parallel-Strategies.html

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© 2019 Stefania Loredana Nita and Marius Mihailescu

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Nita, S.L., Mihailescu, M. (2019). Parallelism and Concurrency. In: Haskell Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4507-1_18

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