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Following the broad classification given in Section 1.2.4, fully explicit parallelism will refer to the programmer (rather than the compiler) being responsible for (almost) every aspect of the parallelisation problem, including the partitioning of the program into processes, the mapping of these processes onto the processors and their synchronisation (in a broad sense). At first sight, the resulting approaches to parallelism do not blend gracefully into the functional framework of this book; after all, functional programming is mainly concerned with abstraction and according to, for instance, Skillicorn and Talia’s definition of full explicitness [541], explicitly parallel programs expose too much of their operational semantics (through low-level constructs such as message transfers or shared-memory access) to be viewed as illustrations of abstraction at work. There are some pragmatic reasons, however, for which one may wish to reconcile explicit parallelism with functional programming.

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Sérot, J. (1999). Explicit Parallelism. In: Hammond, K., Michaelson, G. (eds) Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0841-2_18

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