Below are the slides for my Futurize - Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpilers talk that I presented at the useR! 2026 conference in Warzaw, Poland.
Title: Futurize - Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpilers
Speaker: Henrik Bengtsson
Slides: HTML (16 slides; 18 minutes)
Video: To appear
The new futurize package makes it easier than ever before to parallelize existing map-reduce calls - just pipe the call to futurize() and you’re done!
I am incredibly excited to announce the release of the futurize package. This launch marks a major milestone in the decade-long journey of the Futureverse project.
Since the inception of the future ecosystem, I (and others) have envisioned a tool that would make concurrent execution as simple as possible with minimal change to your existing code – no refactoring, no new function names to memorize – it should just work and work the same everywhere.
