Comparing Functional Programming Languages for Parallel Applications
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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2019
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Alling, Simon
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I compare Haskell, Erlang, Scala and Manticore in the context of parallel functional
programming using two data-parallel problems: mapping a function over a list, and
k-means clustering. I give an overview of the syntax and parallel idioms of each
language, observe both expected and unexpected performance figures, and finally
analyze each language from a programmer’s perspective.
I conclude that functional languages can be quite fast, not very far behind C;
that the studied languages scale well in general, especially Erlang; that Manticore is
not ready for production use; and that none of the three other languages is a clear
overall winner.
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Parallelism , Functional programming , Benchmarking , Performance , Haskell , Scala , Erlang , Manticore , K-means