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

[Yann O. <or...@fr...>]

Albert Graef a =E9crit :

> Orlarey Yann wrote:
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>> 4) Conclusion : Parallelism will be the chance for Functional=20
>> Programming to go for mainstream in the next decade and we must get=20
>> prepared...
>
>
> Well, Q has multithreading, and we're currently tossing around the=20
> idea to interface to PVM. But fine-grained, massive parallelism is a=20
> totally different beast. I'd say that Faust is much better prepared=20
> for this, with its support for vector operations.

In any case we will all have a *lot* of work to deal with parallelism at=20
such a large scale with our languages. But multimedia functional=20
languages (Q, Faust, ...) have two advantages : a) the functional model=20
fits  well to parallelism and automatic parallelisation, b) the=20
multimedia data (images, spectrums, sounds, etc.) are generaly adapted=20
to parallel processing. Data parallelism is certainly an approach to=20
look at...

Yann