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Parallel Letter Frequency
Parallel Letter Frequency

Parallel Letter Frequency

Medium

Instructions

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.

Tcl-specific thread info

You'll implement parallelism with threads: subdivide the input into chunks that code running in a thread can examine asynchronously.

Some reading material for Tcl threads:

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