Hi Noah,

Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> writes:
> Oh, sorry to email twice so soon, but I have an idea for making
> par-map usable in more cases: add a keyword argument called
> "block-size". Its value should be a positive integer, and the meaning
> is to have each thread do block-size iterations.

IMO, we should avoid adding anything like this.  It would be hard for
callers to know what value to pass.  I think it should be possible to
make 'par-map' act sensibly and efficiently without this kind of help.

> I tried to benchmark it, but got a segmentation fault. I think we
> have plenty of work to do here. :-)

Ouch.  Can you please file a bug report with the full details?

    Regards,
      Mark

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