Revision 843391 of ParallelArray

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<p><strong>Note:</strong> This object was implemented in Firefox 17 and has been removed from {{ Gecko(29) }} in favor of ParallelJS (PJS) currently available in the Nightly channel ({{ bug(944074) }}).</p>
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<p>The goal of <strong><code>ParallelArray</code></strong> was to enable data-parallelism in web applications. The higher-order functions available on <code>ParallelArray</code> attempted to execute in parallel, though they may fall back to sequential execution if necessary. To ensure that your code executes in parallel, it is suggested that the functions should be limited to the <a href="https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2013/04/30/parallelizable-javascript-subset/" title="/en-US/docs/ParallelizableJavaScriptSubset">parallelizable subset of JS that Firefox supports</a>.</p>

<h2 id="Syntax">Syntax</h2>

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new ParallelArray()
new ParallelArray([element0, element1, ...])
new ParallelArray(arrayLength, elementalFunction)</pre>

<h2 id="ParallelArray_instances"><code>ParallelArray</code> instances</h2>

<h3 id="Properties">Properties</h3>

<dl>
 <dt>length</dt>
 <dd>Reflects the number of elements in the <code>ParallelArray</code>.</dd>
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<h3 id="Methods">Methods</h3>

<dl>
 <dt>map</dt>
 <dt>reduce</dt>
 <dt>scan</dt>
 <dt>scatter</dt>
 <dt>filter</dt>
 <dt>flatten</dt>
 <dt>partition</dt>
 <dt>get</dt>
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<h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2>

<h3 id="Example_Using_map_in_parallel">Using <code>map</code> in parallel</h3>

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var p = new ParallelArray([0, 1, 2, 3, 4]);
var m = p.map(function (v) {
  return v + 1;
});</pre>

<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>

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 <li><a href="https://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:data_parallelism" title="https://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:data_parallelism">Ecmascript ParallelArray strawman</a></li>
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