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--- reduction-openmp [June 11, 2026 at 09:19] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ reduction-openmp [June 11, 2026 at 11:06] (current) – Ivan Janevski
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-Adding `#pragma omp parallel for` to this loop creates a race condition: multiple threads read `sum`, add to it, and write back simultaneously, so some updates are lost. The `reduction` clause fixes this. **Reduction** in OpenMP gives each thread a private copy of the accumulation variable, lets it accumulate locally without contention, then merges all copies at the end of the loop using the specified operator.
+Adding `#pragma omp parallel for` to this loop creates a race condition: multiple threads read `sum`, add to it, and write back simultaneously, so some updates are lost. The `reduction` clause fixes this.
+**Reduction** in OpenMP gives each thread a private copy of the accumulation variable, lets it accumulate locally without contention, then merges all copies at the end of the loop using the specified operator.
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