[eurolisp] Re: More parallel/concurrent stuff

mario.mommer@gmx.net (Mario S. Mommer) writes:

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Dirk Gerrits dirk@dirkgerrits.com writes:

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mario.mommer@gmx.net (Mario S. Mommer) writes:

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Look at what I found here:

http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html

At first glance this looks somewhat similar to Connection Machine Lisp, but at a larger scale.

Aha... *lisp, you mean?

I mean this paper: http://fresh.homeunix.net/~luke/misc/ConnectionMachineLisp.pdf

These folks had a helluva time writing this paper, I reckon.

Indeed, the map/reduce mechanism seems to be a simplified version of a subset of CMLisp.

I'm also having a helluva time reading this paper. Among other things I am happy to know that there exists prior art.

Regards, Mario.