Processing-Mode Equality

[Maurice Naftalin]

In writing about streams, I want to explain how the API has been shaped by the design goal of maintaining functional equivalence between parallel and sequential execution. I'm looking for a name for that goal, but so far the best I've come up with is the Principle of Processing-Mode Equality, which is pretty clumsy. I'd appreciate suggestions for improving it (which I will be happy to attribute). Thanks in advance!

Maurice