Simon Marlow has been a prominent figure in the Haskell community formany years. He is the author of large parts of the Glasgow HaskellCompiler, including in particular its highly regarded mulitcoreruntime system, along with many of the libraries and tools thatHaskell programmers take for granted. Simon also contributes to thefunctional programming research community, and has a string of paperson subjects ranging from garbage collection to language design. Inrecent years Simon's focus has been on making Haskell an idealprogramming language for parallel and concurrent applications, both bydeveloping new programming models and building a high-qualityimplementation.

Simon spent 14 years at Microsoft's Research laborotory in Cambridge,before taking a break in Spring 2013 to work on this book. Hecurrently works at Facebook UK.

《Haskell並行與並發編程》深入淺齣地介紹如何使用Haskell語言及相關的庫和框架編寫並行和並發程序。《Haskell並行與並發編程》用兩個部分分彆講解並行Haskell編程和並發Haskell編程。根據編程模型的不同，並行部分介紹瞭3種並行編程方式：基於惰性求值的並行(Eval Monad及求值策略)、基於數據流的並行(Par Monad)以及麵嚮大規模數組算法的並行(Repa數據並行編程和Acellerate GPU編程)。並發部分則按抽象層次由低到高分彆涉及綫程和MVar、重疊I/O、綫程的取消和超時、軟件事務內存、高級並發抽象、並發網絡服務程序、使用綫程並行編程和分布式編程等，最後還介紹調試、性能調優以及外部函數接口。書中包含大量可運行的代碼示例，並附有詳細的注釋，讀者通過親身運行、修改和調試代碼，可極大地加深對書中內容的理解。

《Haskell並行與並發編程》適閤有一定Haskell語言基礎的程序員或者對並行或並發編程感興趣的相關人員閱讀。