Parallel collections are the most interesting development for 2.9. In a nutshell the idea is that collection operations like map, filter, etc can execute in par

Parallel collections are the most interesting development for 2.9. In a nutshell the idea is that collection operations like map, filter, etc can execute in parallel in a way that is transparent to the program. Check out the presentation from Scala Days 2010: http://days2010.scala-lang.org/node/138/140 http://days2010.scala-lang.org/node/138/140