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🔗 Elixir Task.async_stream/3
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Honestly, these three lines of code should be all you need to show somebody the immense power of Elixir.
With just one function call, you can parallelise a task over all available CPUs. One!
1# Counts the characters in each word and returns the overall sum. 2# 3# Task.async_stream/3 runs as many tasks in parallel as you have schedulers. 4# This defaults to the number of available CPUs. Each task applies 5# the function to only one element and returns the result. 6["elixir", "is", "great"] 7|> Task.async_stream(fn word -> String.length(word) end) 8|> Enum.reduce(0, fn {:ok, count}, acc -> count + acc end)
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