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International Conference on Functional Programming archive
Proceeding of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming table of contents

Victoria, BC, Canada

SESSION: Session 5 table of contents

Pages 115-118

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-59593-919-7

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Christian Convey	Naval Undersea Warfare Centers, Newport, RI, USA
Andrew Fredricks	Naval Undersea Warfare Centers, Newport, RI, USA
Christopher Gagner	Naval Undersea Warfare Centers, Newport, RI, USA
Douglas Maxwell	Naval Undersea Warfare Centers, Newport, RI, USA
Lutz Hamel	University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

We investigated the relative merits of C++ and Erlang in the implementation of a parallel acoustic ray tracing algorithm for the U.S. Navy. We found a much smaller learning curve and better debugging environment for parallel Erlang than for pthreads-based C++ programming. Our C++ implementation outperformed the Erlang program by at least 12x. Attempts to use Erlang on the IBM Cell BE microprocessor were frustrated by Erlang's memory footprint.

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