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Parallel Markov Chain Builder

A random text generator using a parallelized version of the Markov chain algorithm implemented here.

Explores Go's extensive concurrency primitives (goroutines, channels, mutexes, barriers, etc.) and synchronization techniques with a goal to achieve speedup in a pretty fun/interesting application.

Goal: To parallelize Markov chain creation for random word generators in Go. The Markov chain is stored as a map from prefixes to suffixes which is built upon/written to by multiple threads and thus needs to be synchronized.

• coarse-grain compares synchronization of a shared map[string][]string using sync.Mutex vs channels
• fine-grain stores the Markov chain in a sync.Map, Go's concurrent map implementation