loop-parallelcode

noun

UK /luːp ˈpærəlɛl kəʊd/

US /luːp ˈpærəlɛl koʊd/

Code that makes a computer do many loop steps at the same time.

The game ran faster after we wrote loop-parallelcode for the moving stars.

SYNONYMS

parallel loop code concurrent loop code vectorized loop code multi-threaded loop code

RELATED WORDS

parallel computing loop unrolling thread multiprocessing SIMD

OTHER MEANINGS

2. A programming style where each pass of a loop runs on a different processor.

Loop-parallelcode split the big array across four cores.

3. Compiler output that turns a simple loop into parallel tasks.

The optimizer produced loop-parallelcode from the matrix multiply.

4. A teaching term for loops that can safely run at the same time.

Students learned loop-parallelcode by coloring independent loop steps.