RFR 8012647: Add Arrays.parallelPrefix (prefix sum, scan, cumulative sum) (original) (raw)

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Thu Jun 13 09:30:52 UTC 2013

On 06/12/2013 05:07 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:

On 12/06/2013 15:50, Chris Hegarty wrote:

... Is the name final? Just curious if other names such as parallelScan have been considered (and discarded).

I think we should be open to discussing the name, but I will have to defer to Doug as to whether other names were considered/discarded.

It seems the convention we are adopting for naming these new methods, whose implementation is parallelized, is to prefix the name with 'parallel' ( parallelSort, parallelSetAll ). Sounds fine. Otherwise I would have preferred something like prefixScan(..).

Options so far:

parallelPrefix(..) // what we have today parallelScan(..) parallelPrefixScan(..) // too long winded??

"Cumulates in parallel each element ...", I guess I would put a comma before and after "in parallel".

Yes, I will add this.

Otherwise the API looks good to me.

Thanks Alan, -Chris.

-Alan.

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