10. Parallel Computing
This week …
Sometimes, embarrassing is good. Like when a task is embarrassingly parallel.
Required Reading
- Charlie Gao, Hadley Wickham, Davis Vaughan, and Lionel Henry. 2025. “Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0.” Tidyverse Blog, July 10.
This post introduces in_parallel(), the new way of running purrr’s map() functions in parallel, using mirai as the back end. It’s what we’ll use in class.