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

[Chris Hegarty]

On 06/12/2013 05:07 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 12/06/2013 15:50, Chris Hegarty wrote:
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> 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.

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