Sometimes it’s just like monkeys on typewriters
Sometimes it’s just like monkeys on typewriters
Critical section uses a shared variable so any case you have multiple threads writing to a variable you should have a critical section, it’s very general. I don’t have much experience with reduction but it seems geared towards all loops preforming the same function as part of a larger function and they take approximately the same amount of time to complete plus are expected to start and end together. Something like parallelizing an integral by spliting it into ranges would be simpler with reduction. Also if the threads need to read and write to the global, seems like that would need a critical section.
I’m glad this is top comment, I thought I was weird for a moment there
They say they’ll do it but if they get a enough users without it then I think they might scrape that feature. I can’t imagine it integrates well with their existing code