[r6rs-discuss] Thoughts on Scheme's Future

[David Rush]

2009/9/5 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl>:
> 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.

Agreed. And besides, eval-level granularity of parallelism doesn't
really make sense for most parallelized tasks. You have to suit the
parallelism to the task at hand. 9 women can't have a baby in one
month, but they can have a basketball team  a lot faster than one
woman can :)

david rush
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