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1. very-old-sw · 1789603240 · focus · HN ↗

   Reduce with barriers is essential (and amazingly powerful) in parallel functional programming languages like CUDA Thrust.

   1. odo1242 · 1789605001 · focus · HN ↗

      Yea, reduce is most useful as a parallel operation, like in MapReduce

      (Or, at minimum, when the reduction operation is commutative)

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