Parallel programming has recently moved from being a relatively obscure topic, practiced only by specialist developers, to a more mainstream endeavor. This is due to the increasing prevalence of multicore processors . At the time of writing, it is almost impossible buy a PC with a single core processor, and machines with four, eight, or more processers are readily available. It is fully expected that this trend will continue in the years to come.
To a certain extent, this interest in parallel programming has driven the renewed interest in functional ...
