Parallel Letter Frequency

Count the frequency of letters in texts using parallel computation.

Parallelism is about doing things in parallel that can also be done sequentially. A common example is counting the frequency of letters. Create a function that returns the total frequency of each letter in a list of texts and that employs parallelism.

Java Tips

Single-threaded (non-concurrent) solutions can pass all tests but the last. Your solution will be tested for concurrency by submitting it as a Runnable to an ExecutorService. Your solution must leverage multiple Threads to pass the final test.

Java documentation on parallel streams may provide some help.

As a stretch goal, consider if your implementation will work for characters with diacritics or accents. For example, such solutions should not consider e and ë the same character. An example text for this case is Wilhelmus, the Dutch national anthem.

Running the tests

You can run all the tests for an exercise by entering

$ gradle test

in your terminal.

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.