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For comparison, what are the other possibilities for parallelism? MapReduce seems the obvious obvious one.
by judk 12y ago
For comparison, what are the other possibilities for parallelism? MapReduce seems the obvious obvious one.
- JadeNB 12y agoMy impression was that MapReduce isn't so much parallelism itself, but rather a way of organising the execution of a programme to take advantage of parallel processors. (Maybe this is a meaningless distinction; I have never written (intentionally) parallel code, and am not familiar with the terminology.) In that sense, Apple's GCD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch) is another well known possibility—one of, presumably, many.