[clean-list] Concurrent Clean?

[John van Groningen]

Fernando Mato Mira wrote:
>Yes. My renewed interest comes from the current multicore trend. It will be very difficult
>to take full advantage of new processors without a paradigm change for normal applications.
>
>Does Clean auto-parallelize or does one have to cut up the application explicitly (hard thing do to for
>something like a word processor, for instance).

No, Clean will not auto-parallelize. If we add supports for multicore
processors the programmer can use annotations or predefined functions
to evaluate expressions concurrently.

Kind regards,

John van Groningen