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A cancelation registry provides a cancelation interface whose implementation registers cancelable items such as synchronous operations, asynchronous operations, type instances, and transactions. Items may be implicitly or explicitly registered with the cancelation registry. A consistent cancelation interface unifies cancelation management for heterogeneous items, and allows cancelation of a group of items with a single invocation of a cancel-registered-items procedure.

Unified and extensible asynchronous and synchronous cancelation

A data partitioning interface provides procedure headings to create data partitions for processing data elements in parallel, and for obtaining data elements to process, without specifying the organizational structure of a data partitioning. A data partitioning implementation associated with the data partitioning interface provides operations to implement the interface procedures, and may also provide dynamic partitioning to facilitate load balancing.

Configurable partitioning of parallel data for parallel processing

A parallelism policy object provides a control parallelism interface whose implementation evaluates parallelism conditions that are left unspecified in the interface. User-defined and other parallelism policy procedures can make recommendations to a worker program for transitioning between sequential program execution and parallel execution. Parallelizing assistance values obtained at runtime can be used in the parallelism conditions on which the recommendations are based. A consistent parallelization policy can be employed across a range of parallel constructs, and inside recursive procedures.

Controlling parallelization of recursion using pluggable policies

A membership interface provides procedure headings to add and remove elements of a data collection, without specifying the organizational structure of the data collection. A membership implementation associated with the membership interface provides thread-safe operations to implement the interface procedures. A blocking-bounding wrapper on the membership implementation provides blocking and bounding support separately from the thread-safety mechanism.

Blocking and bounding wrapper for thread-safe data collections

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