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Functional Python Programming - Second Edition
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Functional Python Programming - Second Edition

by Steven F. Lott
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
408 pages
10h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Functional programming and concurrency

The most effective concurrent processing occurs where there are no dependencies among the tasks being performed. The biggest difficulty in developing concurrent (or parallel) programming is coordinating updates to shared resources.

When following functional design patterns, we tend to avoid stateful programs. A functional design should minimize or eliminate concurrent updates to shared objects. If we can design software where lazy, non-strict evaluation is central, we can also design software where concurrent evaluation is helpful. This can lead to embarrassingly parallel design, where most of the work can be done concurrently with few or no interactions among computations.

Dependencies among operations ...

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