Quoting Andy Sy <andy.sy@???>:
> So Cilk relies heavily on recursion?
It's one of the strategies you can employ to have parallelism under Cilk by
converting loops into recursion (divide-and-conquer approach) as shown in
its examples.
> I'm sure you are also
> aware of functional programming languages' reputed amenability
> to being run on parallel hardware with [claimed] freedom from
> the nastiness of synchronization primitives, deadlocks and threads.
> Recursion is, of course, the central mechanism in FP languages,
> being the side-effect free replacement for iteration mechanisms.
I have read about the Kali Scheme implementation (an abandoned project of NEC)
on networks of computers, but not on parallel hardware.
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