There are two main reasons for doing parallel programming: the problem has inherent parallelism, in which case the parallel programming comes naturally; and the problem is inherently sequential but we need the speed-up promised by parallel processing, in which case the parallel programming is often a struggle.
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Grune, D., Jacobs, C.J.H. (2008). Parallel Parsing. In: Parsing Techniques. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68954-8_14
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