Recently, I’ve been faced with a problem where I feel my metagenome comparator program is running too slow. The main reason behind it is that it’s performing operations that occur multiple times in a loop. These operations involve different tasks such as: reading lines from text, creating objects, inserting those objects into a data structure, retrieving those objects from the data structure, and writing the data structures to disk (just to name a few). So it would be natural to suggest to someone in my position to parallelize it all, and that’s exactly what I want to do. However, I’ve never written any type of parallel applications, and thus, I need to do a little bit of learning and researching into parallel programming. (More of my ramblings after the Read More break)
