Flux - A Data-Flow Programming Language

R. Ispas, L. Negreanu

Abstract


The goal of this paper is to establish the design requirements of a programming language enabled to extract the maximum parallelism from source code. The structure of imperative and functional languages are analyzed in regards to parallelism. Next the data-flow paradigm is introduced. Its major obstacles are identified and solutions are provided based on compile-time analysis. The resulting language should enable wide-scale parallelism, scaling from instruction to cluster.

Keywords


parallel programming languages; data-flow parallel programming language; type systems; processes

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