.NET's Multi-threading vs Multi-processing: Awful Parallel.ForEach Performance

Question

I have coded a very simple \"Word Count\" program that reads a file and counts each word\'s occurrence in the file. Here is a part of the code:

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Answer 1

Just for fun, here is a shorter PLINQ version:

File.ReadAllText("big.txt").Split().AsParallel().GroupBy(t => t)
                                                .ToDictionary(g => g.Key, g => g.Count());