Explicit parallelism: Difference between revisions

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of concurrent computations by means of primitives

in the form of special-purpose directives or function calls. Most parallel primitives are related to process synchronization, communication or task partitioning. As they seldom contribute to actually carry out the

intendendintended computation of the program, their computational cost is often considered

as [[parallelization overhead]].