Exactly what is PLINQ?

Question

PLINQ was added in the .NET 4.0 Framework as an extension to LINQ.

• What is it?
• What problems does it solve?
• When is it appropriate and when n

Answer 1

It allows you to add .AsParallel to your LINQ to attempt to execute the query using as many processors as possible. Neat, but you still need to know a bit about whether your algorithm is "parallelisable" - it isn't magic.

It basically removes the need to manage a thread pool and manages synchronising the results coming back from each thread - normally without the parallel extensions library you would have to do this manually.