Evaluation Strategies

Speaker: Kevin Hammond

Time: Monday 22nd February 1999, at 16.15

Place: Room 2.33

Abstract:

This talk introduces evaluation strategies, higher-order functions that can be used to capture many common programming paradigms, including divide-and-conquer, pipelining, bounded buffers, and perhaps SPMD. Evaluation strategies have been used successfully in a number of large parallel Haskell programs, including the 47000 line...