[swift-evolution] Divide & Conquer Algorithms

[Xiaodi Wu]

I would like that feature too.

Wouldn't this require Swift to have settled its concurrency model (which in
turn would require settling ownership and borrowing)?

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 03:03 Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> I would like to see Swift gain something similar to Clojure’s Reducers
> Library.  Basically this is somewhat similar to our Sequence, but for
> tree-based structures instead of sequential ones.  It allows a series of
> algorithms that operate using a divide and conquer strategy, and it is easy
> to massively parallelize.
>
> One interesting property is that, because you don’t have to work
> sequentially, you are able to take a series of calls that do the equivalent
> of map/filter/flatMap, and compose the functions to make a single call on
> each piece of data (thus you don’t have build or recurse over intermediate
> sequences).  Everything can be done in a single pass (and that pass can be
> done in parallel).  It can be a big win in terms of efficiency.
>
> Here is a blog post where someone benchmarked ‘fold’ from the reducers
> library (306ms) vs sequence-based reduce (1450ms):
> https://adambard.com/blog/clojure-reducers-for-mortals/
>
> Here is another post explaining how the idea might work in Python:
> https://adambard.com/blog/Reducers-explained-through-Python/
>
> Finally here is a video one of the developers of Clojure talking about why
> this pattern is so great (just after the 19 min mark):
> https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Clojure-Design-Patterns
>
> Adding something like this to Swift would be a great boon by providing
> generic parallelizable algorithms…
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
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