parallel-friendly code

noun phrase

UK /ˈpærəlɛl ˈfrɛndli kəʊd/

US /ˈpærəlɛl ˈfrɛndli koʊd/

Code written so that many parts can run at the same time without messing each other up.

The game loads faster because the programmers wrote parallel-friendly code that draws the trees and the sky at the same time.

SYNONYMS

concurrent-safe code thread-safe code parallel-ready code concurrency-friendly code

RELATED WORDS

multithreading concurrency parallel computing race condition synchronization

OTHER MEANINGS

2. Software designed to split work across multiple processors or cores efficiently.

The simulation uses parallel-friendly code to spread the physics calculations over eight cores.

3. A coding style that avoids shared state so tasks can run independently.

By keeping data separate, she turned the old loop into parallel-friendly code.

4. Code that scales well when more computing units are added.

Their parallel-friendly code ran four times faster on the bigger cluster.