[r6rs-discuss] Thoughts on Scheme's Future

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

2009/9/5 Antonio Vieiro <antonio.vieiro at gmail.com>:

> Scheme is highly parallelizable, so I don't see a reason
> to program multithreaded code. The evaluator should do that for us.

It's harder than it seems. I claim that an evaluator of a Scheme-like
language (where mutations to objects shared between parts of the
program can happen anywhere) will never be able to automatically
parallelize non-trivial computations.

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Marcin Kowalczyk
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