fork-join

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Noun

fork-join (countable and uncountable, plural fork-joins)

  1. (computing, attributive) A pattern for parallel computing where execution parallelizes (or forks) at designated points in the program, to later merge (join) again for sequential computation.
    • 2017, Katherine Cox-Buday, Concurrency in Go […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 198:
      In a fork-join paradigm, tasks are likely dependent on one another, and it turns out naively splitting them among processors will likely cause one of the processors to be underutilized.

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