[W/K] :: Skel-ML

  Skel-ML
       
          A parallel variant of ML using skeletons being developed
          (April 1994) as part of Tore Bratvold's PhD in the Department
          of Computing and Electronic Engineering, Heriot-Watt
          University, Edinburgh, UK.  Programs are written in a subset
          of Standard ML, and parallelism is extracted from the use of
          certain higher-order functions.  The SkelML compiler uses
          profiling information together with skeleton performance
          models to distinguish useful from non-useful parallelism.  An
          important feature is the ability to perform transformations
          between skeletons to improve performance.  Skeletons currently
          supported are map, filter, fold, pipe (implicitly extracted
          from function application) and various combinations of these.
       
          See also paraML.
       
          E-mail: Tore A Bratvold .