fork-join
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A pattern for parallel computing where execution parallelizes (or forks) at designated points in the program, to later merge (join) again for sequential computation.
- In a fork-join paradigm, tasks are likely dependent on one another, and it turns out naively splitting them among processors will likely cause one of the processors to be underutilized.2017, Katherine Cox-Buday, Concurrency in Go […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 198:
- Related terms
- divide and conquer