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Parallel Letter Frequency

Parallel Letter Frequency

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Count the frequency of letters in texts using parallel computation.

Parallelism is about doing things in parallel that can also be done sequentially. A common example is counting the frequency of letters. Employ parallelism to calculate the total frequency of each letter in a list of texts.

For this exercise the following F# feature comes in handy:

  • Asynchronous programming .NET has asynchronous functionality built-in which enables you to run things in parallel (assuming you have a multi-core processor which is becoming more an more common) easily
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