Past and present (and future) of parallel and distributed computation in (constraint) logic programming

FERDINANDO FIORETTO, ENRICO PONTELLI
2018 Theory and Practice of Logic Programming  
Declarative languages offer unprecedented opportunities for the use of parallelism to speed up execution. A declarative language, being not procedural, removes the need to perform operations in a strict order and reduces the number of dependencies among operations, thus opening the doors for concurrent execution. The potential for transparent exploitation of parallelism in logic programming emerged almost immediately with the birth of the paradigm (Pollard 1981).
doi:10.1017/s1471068418000406 fatcat:fzevnnrn5bg6pmevaykleqkxxi