19.12. Parallel LINQ Queries (PLINQ)
To wrap up your look at the TPL, be aware that there is another way you can incorporate parallel tasks into your .NET applications. If you wish, you can make use of a new set of extension methods, which allow you to construct a LINQ query that will perform its workload in parallel (if possible). Fittingly, LINQ queries that are designed to run in parallel are termed PLINQ queries.
Like parallel code authored using the Parallel class, PLINQ has the option of ignoring your request to process the collection in parallel if need be. The PLINQ framework has been optimized in numerous ways, which includes determining if a query would in fact perform faster in a synchronous manner.
At run time, PLINQ analyzes the ...
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