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Software Development TechniquesUnderstanding Parallel LINQ (PLINQ)Understanding Parallel LINQ (PLINQ)
Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) is a concurrency executionengine for executing Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) queries. PLINQ is actuallya part of the Parallel Extensions library (previously known as ParallelFramework Extensions PFX), which is a managed concurrency library thatcomprises two parts: Task Parallel Library (TPL) and PLINQ. The former is atask parallelism component, and the latter is a concurrency execution enginebuilt on top of the CLR. This article takes a look at PLINQ and its features.
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