One more pass on flatMap/mapMulti

[Remi Forax]

On 01/10/2013 04:42 PM, Doug Lea wrote:
> On 01/10/13 10:35, Remi Forax wrote:
>
>>>
>>> mapMulti is still not a great name.  How about "explode" ?
>>>
>>
>> yes, explode is better.
>>
>
> ... because that is what will happen with people's memory consumption
> if they don't do the right thing and merge while collecting :-)

I think that the implementation of the pipeline can guarantee that in 
the worst case, you don't have more than the memory needed to store the 
generated elements for one element (for each core :( ).

>
> -Doug
>
>

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