Notes on automatic grain size
The optimal grain size depends upon implementation. This issue is not limited to parallelism. Try writing a large file using a single-character write-and-flush operation on each character. Picking appropriate chunk sizes is common in programming. Thus, automatic determination of an optimal grain size is still a research problem.
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