Much ado about two (pearl): a pearl on parallel prefix computation

  • Authors:
  • Janis Voigtländer

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This pearl develops a statement about parallel prefix computation in the spirit of Knuth's 0-1-Principle for oblivious sorting algorithms. It turns out that 0-1 is not quite enough here. The perfect hammer for the nails we are going to drive in is relational parametricity.