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There have been experimental parallel graph reduction machines. Excel has a parallel evaluator these days.

Oddly enough, functional programming seems to be a poor fit for this because the fanout tends to be fairly low: individual operations have few inputs, and single-linked lists and trees are more common than arrays.



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