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> The only systems which have supported compute-oriented composable parallelism like this are Cilk and TBB

Because it isn’t true. Haskell is an example of why it isn’t true.



It's extremely debatable that Haskell is compute-oriented. I know that Haskell people like to talk about doing numerical computing in Haskell, but in reality it does not seem to be a thing. No one has ever used Haskell to implement large scale scientific computations on supercomputers, for example.



This particular example appears to be an implementation of a 'Computer algebra system', which seems to be a type of symbolic computing rather than numerical computing.


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You're really asking for a Dan Luu sequel here.




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