Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell
The book was published in August 2013 by O’Reilly Media.
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This book explains how to write elegant and scalable code
while not shying away from any of the tricky bits and corner cases –
making it an essential companion for any developer!
— Andres Löh, Haskell Consultant at Well-Typed LLP
Not only does this book provide an excellent overview of
Haskell as a language for concurrent and parallel programming,
it is essential reading even if you are not a Haskell
programmer. It will change how you think about designing and
building high performance, solid software.
— Bryan O’Sullivan, Director, Developer Efficiency, Facebook
These days parallelism and concurrency are ubiquitous, but
parallel and concurrent programs are typically much harder to
write than sequential ones. Functional programming languages
offer a radical and elegant attack on this challenge, by
tackling the root cause, namely unrestricted side effects.
But would-be users only have the research literature to
guide them. This is the first book to offer a thorough,
internally-consistent tutorial in parallel and concurrent
functional programming aimed at practitioners rather than
researchers. Moreover, Simon Marlow knows exactly what he is
talking about: he built GHC’s parallel runtime system, and
remains its master. This book will do more than a hundred
research papers to get parallel functional programming out of
the lab and into the hands of working programmers. Bravo!
— Simon Peyton Jones, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
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