• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Random but why is “embarrassing” or similar adjectives so often used to describe a parallel program? What’s embarrassing about it?

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      1 year ago

      “Embarrassingly parallelizable” is just the term for a process that can be perfectly paralleled.

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          I think the usage implies it’s so easy to parallelize that any competent programmer should be embarrassed if they weren’t running it in parallel. Whereas many classes of problems can be extremely complex or impossible to parallelize, and running them sequentially would be perfectly acceptable.