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I've read somewhere that functional programming is suitable to take advantage of multi-core trend in computing. I didn't really get the idea. Is it related to the lambda calculus and von neumann architecture?
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Multicore programming helps you create concurrent systems for deployment on multicore processor and multiprocessor systems. A multicore processor system is a single processor with multiple execution cores in one chip. By contrast, a multiprocessor system has multiple processors on the motherboard or chip.
Parallel functional programming refers to a specific philosophy of computer science that uses functional programming in conjunction with parallelism to work with declarative programming in specific ways.
Functional programming minimizes or eliminates side effects and thus is better suited to distributed programming. i.e. multicore processing.
In other words, lots of pieces of the puzzle can be solved independently on separate cores simultaneously without having to worry about one operation affecting another nearly as much as you would in other programming styles.
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