TY - GEN
T1 - A short cut to parallelization theorems
AU - Morihata, Akimasa
PY - 2013/11/12
Y1 - 2013/11/12
N2 - The third list-homomorphism theorem states that if a function is both foldr and foldl, it has a divide-and-conquer parallel implementation as well. In this paper, we develop a theory for obtaining such parallelization theorems. The key is a new proof of the third list-homomorphism theorem based on shortcut deforestation. The proof implies that there exists a divide-and-conquer parallel program of the form of h (x 'merge' y) = h1 × ⊙ h 2 y, where h is the subject of parallelization, merge is the operation of integrating independent substructures, h1 and h 2 are computations applied to substructures, possibly in parallel, and ⊙ merges the results calculated for substructures, if (i) h can be specified by two certain forms of iterative programs, and (ii) merge can be implemented by a function of a certain polymorphic type. Therefore, when requirement (ii) is fulfilled, h has a divide-and-conquer implementation if h has two certain forms of implementations. We show that our approach is applicable to structure-consuming operations by catamorphisms (folds), structure-generating operations by anamorphisms (unfolds), and their generalizations called hylomorphisms.
AB - The third list-homomorphism theorem states that if a function is both foldr and foldl, it has a divide-and-conquer parallel implementation as well. In this paper, we develop a theory for obtaining such parallelization theorems. The key is a new proof of the third list-homomorphism theorem based on shortcut deforestation. The proof implies that there exists a divide-and-conquer parallel program of the form of h (x 'merge' y) = h1 × ⊙ h 2 y, where h is the subject of parallelization, merge is the operation of integrating independent substructures, h1 and h 2 are computations applied to substructures, possibly in parallel, and ⊙ merges the results calculated for substructures, if (i) h can be specified by two certain forms of iterative programs, and (ii) merge can be implemented by a function of a certain polymorphic type. Therefore, when requirement (ii) is fulfilled, h has a divide-and-conquer implementation if h has two certain forms of implementations. We show that our approach is applicable to structure-consuming operations by catamorphisms (folds), structure-generating operations by anamorphisms (unfolds), and their generalizations called hylomorphisms.
KW - Divide-and-conquer parallelism
KW - Shortcut deforestation
KW - Third list-homomorphism theorem
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U2 - 10.1145/2500365.2500580
DO - 10.1145/2500365.2500580
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84887186369
SN - 9781450323260
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, ICFP
SP - 245
EP - 256
BT - ICFP 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming
T2 - 2013 18th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, ICFP 2013
Y2 - 25 September 2013 through 27 September 2013
ER -