Parallel Enumeration with ForAll
So far, we’ve been using a classic foreach loop in conjunction with a PLINQ-based query. Although this is the most obvious and natural way to consume results of a query, we can do better when we’re facing concurrency. Maybe the results of the query can be consumed in parallel as well, which will allow for a higher throughput. You can see why this is the case in Figure 20.17.
Figure 20.17. Buffering involved with one consumer and multiple producers.
After the input sequence is partitioned (possibly in a dynamic manner), parallel workers start executing the query (which by itself can have further decomposition in ...
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