Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach

CHAPTER 8

Working in Several Cores

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.

The Par monad enables you to make explicit which parts of your code would benefit from being run in parallel. The model supported by Par allows you to write code using both the futures model and the dataflow parallelism approach. Then, a scheduler takes care of running your code using parallel threads. ...