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Yes but it's not purely functional in that you cannot automagically make a script scale to n threads, as is the case with Haskell. This is what the OP is referr

• usaar333 17y ago
  Correct. cloud.call, etc. are all higher-level functions. PiCloud does treat cloud.call(func) dispatches as completely functional. The function evaluated cannot have side-effects in terms of the program space; within the program, you access its output via cloud.result(). (Note: You can within the func have external side-effects - e.g. opening a connection to a database and modifying entries).
  • nico_h 17y ago
    - edit : nevermind, found the answer in the 'pitfalls' doc : yes you can create picloud call from within picloud, but they of course go against your maximum count of parallel calls - Hi I have read (quickly) your webscraper example and i still have one question : Is it possible to launch piclouds jobs from within a picloud job ? i.e. from picloud download some list of url as csvs and then start webcrapers then have the original function return the results of these scrapers ? Thanks for your answer.
• _delirium 17y ago
  You can't really do that either in Haskell. Well, in theory you can, but in practice nobody has yet written a way to autoparallelize Haskell that actually gets you reasonable speedups, because it requires predicting which parts are worth parallelizing. Instead, the Haskell devs are mostly taking the same approach, of providing constructs for the programmer to explicitly write parallel code: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/libraries/base/Control-Parallel.html http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/libraries/base/Cont...