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A comment on Parallel Map in Elixir.

Re:Parallel Map in Elixir by Aarvay on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @04:48PM (#9377233)
When choosing to apply parallelism, it should never be about the length of the collection but only the computational intensity of the function that's being applied. There's a considerable overhead in spawning processes and collecting the result from them
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Re:Parallel Map in Elixir by ismaelga on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @05:13PM (#9377406)
There's a considerable overhead unless they are _lightweight_ processes.
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