© Stefania Loredana Nita and Marius Mihailescu 2019
Stefania Loredana Nita and Marius MihailescuHaskell Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4507-1_18

18. Parallelism and Concurrency

Stefania Loredana Nita1  and Marius Mihailescu1
(1)
Bucharest, Romania
 

Parallelism is a computing strategy that enables many computations (or the execution of processes) to be performed simultaneously. In this chapter, you will learn the basic elements of parallelism and concurrency in Haskell.

Before continuing, let’s see what the differences are between parallelism and concurrency. In parallel computing, a larger problem is divided into smaller ones that are solved simultaneously, which implies that the hardware needs to have many processing units. ...

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