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Implicit parallelism
In computer science, implicit parallelism is a characteristic of a programming language that allows a compiler or interpreter to automatically exploit the parallelism inherent to the computations expressed by some of the language's constructs. A pure implicitly parallel language does not need special directives, operators or functions to enable parallel execution, in contrast to explicit parallelism. Programming languages with implicit parallelism include Axum, Binary Modular Dataflow Machine (BMDFM), High Performance Fortran (HPF), Id, LabVIEW, MATLAB M-code, NESL, Single Assignment C (SAC), Streams and Iteration in a Single Assignment Language (SISAL), Z-level programming language (ZPL), and pH.
Article summary
In computer science, implicit parallelism is a characteristic of a programming language that allows a compiler or interpreter to automatically exploit the parallelism inherent to the computations expressed by some of the language's constructs. A pure implicitly parallel language does not need special directives, operators or functions to enable parallel execution, in contrast to explicit parallelism. Programming languages with implicit parallelism include Axum, Binary Modular Dataflow Machine (BMDFM), High Performance Fortran (HPF), Id, LabVIEW, MATLAB M-code, NESL, Single Assignment C (SAC), Streams and Iteration in a Single Assignment Language (SISAL), Z-level programming language (ZPL), and pH.
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