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  • verb Alternative form of parallelize.

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  • It's not that linear - we fundamentally do not know how to write compilers that can parallelise our code well, so as you add more cores, the benefits of adding 'just one more' drop off.

    ColdFusion Talk (CF-Talk) Mailing List RSS Feed 2009

  • I know, we need to parallelise it, that'll make it go faster!

    Slashdot: Developers 2009

  • By using a Dictionary I think it's now more difficult to parallelise the counting up of the words which was something I thought might be possible when I first came across the problem.

    Planet TW 2009

  • The Ubuntu 9.10 development team have started to parallelise and accelerate the boot process through the large scale use of Upstart.

    LXer Linux News 2009

  • For example, you can parallelise text processing and mining and, potentially, you can use it to parallelise other things where that would be useful and where it is currently difficult.

    Independent Information Technology and business analysis from IT-Analysis.com 2008

  • Its importance is that it makes it much easier to parallelise functions that are otherwise hard to parallelise.

    Independent Information Technology and business analysis from IT-Analysis.com 2008

  • Not trying to troll or anything, but I'd always hear of how parallel programming is very complicated for programmers, but then I learnt to use pthread in C to parallelise everything in my C program from parallel concurrent processing of the same things to threading any aspect of the program, and I was surprised by how simple and straightforward it was using pthread, even creating a number of threads depending on the number of detected cores was simple.

    doggdot.us 2009

  • Not trying to troll or anything, but I'd always hear of how parallel programming is very complicated for programmers, but then I learnt to use pthread in C to parallelise everything in my C program from parallel concurrent processing of the same things to threading any aspect of the program, and I was surprised by how simple and straightforward it was using pthread, even creating a number of threads depending on the number of detected cores was simple.

    Slashdot: Developers 2009

  • Not trying to troll or anything, but I'd always hear of how parallel programming is very complicated for programmers, but then I learnt to use pthread in C to parallelise everything in my C program from parallel concurrent processing of the same things to threading any aspect of the program, and I was surprised by how simple and straightforward it was using pthread, even creating a number of threads depending on the number of detected cores was simple.

    Slashdot: IT 2009

  • And there are demands on infrastructure, and luckily, Google has a very well designed software infrastructure, so we can do things like quickly parallelise something, "running it on thousands of computers at the same time, he said.

    Techworld.com News 2010

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