Advanced Python Programming

Inherently sequential

In opposition to embarrassingly parallel tasks, the execution of some tasks depends heavily on the results of others. In other words, those tasks are not independent, and thus, cannot be made parallel or concurrent. Furthermore, if we were to try to implement concurrency into those programs, it could cost us more execution time to produce the same results. Let's go back to our prime-checking example from earlier; the following is the output that we saw:

> python example1.pyResult 1: [10000000000037, 10000000000051, 10000000000099, 10000000000129, 10000000000183, 10000000000259, 10000000000267, 10000000000273, 10000000000279, 10000000000283, 10000000000313, 10000000000343, 10000000000391, 10000000000411, 10000000000433, ...