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Comment by very-old-sw

10 hours ago

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

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odo1242  10 hours ago

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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