Re: [q-lang-devel] [OT] Parallelism and Functional Programming

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Orlarey Yann wrote:
> 4) Conclusion : Parallelism will be the chance for Functional 
> Programming to go for mainstream in the next decade and we must get 
> prepared...

Well, Q has multithreading, and we're currently tossing around the idea 
to interface to PVM. But fine-grained, massive parallelism is a totally 
different beast. I'd say that Faust is much better prepared for this, 
with its support for vector operations.

Albert

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