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motivate and explain parallel reduction, plus wordsmithing

Open nrnrnr opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

This PR holds a small addition to the Confluence chapter. It explains a bit more what can go wrong with the diamond property and how that scenario motivates the definition of parallel reduction.

nrnrnr avatar Jul 26 '24 19:07 nrnrnr

Jeremy is the primary author of Confluence, so he should review.

wadler avatar Jul 27 '24 16:07 wadler

@jsiek self-assigned this a year ago, and... forgot?

JacquesCarette avatar Jul 27 '25 14:07 JacquesCarette