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Functional Programming in Scala, Second Edition
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Functional Programming in Scala, Second Edition

by Runar Bjarnason, Michael Pilquist, Paul Chiusano
July 2023
Beginner to intermediate
488 pages
14h
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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7 Purely functional parallelism

This chapter covers

  • Developing a functional API for parallel computations
  • Approaching APIs algebraically
  • Defining generic combinators

Because modern computers have multiple cores per CPU, and often multiple CPUs, it’s more important than ever to design programs in such a way that they can take advantage of this parallel processing power. But the interaction of programs that run with parallelism is complex, and the traditional mechanism for communication among execution threads—shared mutable memory—is notoriously difficult to reason about. This can all too easily result in programs that have race conditions and deadlocks, aren’t readily testable, and don’t scale well.

In this chapter, we’ll build a purely functional ...

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