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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:55:56 +0200
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On 4/23/11 4:20 AM, Peter C. Chapin wrote:

> // This method operates on a sequence of type T.
> def someMethod[T](data: Seq[T]) = {
>     for (item<- data par) {
>       // Parallelized loop. Iterations are spread over multiple cores.
>     }
> }
>
> In the above code 'par' is actually a method being applied to 'data.' The
> for loop ends up being parallelized not because the compiler treats it in a
> special way, but rather because of the behavior of the 'par' method.

Would 'par' be a normal method or would the programmer
make sure that it operates nicely in parallel, e.g.
does not mess with "shared" variables?