parallel thread
collocation in Englishmeaningsofparallelandthread
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parallel
adjective
uk/ˈpær.ə.lel/us/ˈper.ə.lel/
If two or more lines, streets, etc. are parallel, the distance between them is the same all along ...
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thread
noun
uk/θred/us/θred/
(a length of) a very ...
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In a call-by-value language, for example, the evaluation of every function application could spawn aparallelthreadfor each argument expression.
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This is because individual calls to euler are very cheap and hence several must be combined into a singleparallelthreadto offset thread management costs.
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Based on this information a cost model for the available skeletons, possibly nested, is used to select a decomposition and mapping of parallel threads.
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It appears that the dye, instead of being concentrated in just one thread in the wake, is concentrated in two parallel threads.
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The f-let tree is a convenient method for representing the current collection of parallel threads and their interdependencies.
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Rather than managing an unstructured set of parallel threads, the programmer need only use the higher-order functions appropriately to introduce parallelism.
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The thread creation construct in these two languages is a future, which hides the synchronisation between parallel threads behind ordinary access to variables in a shared address space.
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Parallel threads, represented as process tuples in the tuple space, communicate by reading and writing tuples in the tuple space.
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That brings me to the two parallel threads.
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She notices that her thoughts can seem to take on parallel threads.
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In order to make a strip of cloth, parallel threads (the warp) are stretched across a rectangular frame.
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If the pool is used by multiple threads, it may need the means to prevent parallel threads from grabbing and trying to reuse the same object in parallel.
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