Removing toPar* methods, since we've agreed the...

Removing toPar* methods, since we've agreed they're difficult to: -
underestand - maintain

Also, changed the docs and some tests appropriately.

Description:
1) Every collection is now parallelizable - switch to the parallel version of the collection is done via `par`.

- Traversable collections and iterators have `par` return a parallel
- collection of type `ParIterable[A]` with the implementation being the
- representative of `ParIterable`s (currently, `ParArray`). Iterable
- collections do the same thing. Sequences refine `par`'s returns type
- to `ParSeq[A]`. Maps and sets do a similar thing.

The above means that the contract for `par` changed - it is no longer guaranteed to be O(1), nor reflect the same underlying data, as was the case for mutable collections before. Method `par` is now at worst linear.

Furthermore, specific collection implementations override `par` to a more efficient alternative - instead of copying the dataset, the dataset is shared between the old and the new version. Implementation complexity may be sublinear or constant in these cases, and the underlying data structure may be shared. Currently, these data structures include parallel arrays, maps and sets, vectors, hash trie maps and sets, and ranges.

Finally, parallel collections implement `par` trivially.

2) Methods `toMap`, `toSet`, `toSeq` and `toIterable` have been refined
for parallel collections to switch between collection types, however,
they never switch an implementation from parallel to sequential. They
may or may not copy the elements, as is the case with sequential
variants of these methods.

3) The preferred way to switch between different collection types,
whether maps, sets and seqs, or parallel and sequential, is now via use
of methods `toIterable`, `toSeq`, `toSet` and `toMap` in combination
with `par` and `seq`.

Review by odersky.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/library/scala/collection/mutable/WrappedArray.scala b/src/library/scala/collection/mutable/WrappedArray.scala
index 319053d488..21e62306e7 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/collection/mutable/WrappedArray.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/collection/mutable/WrappedArray.scala
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import scala.collection.parallel.mutable.ParArray
 abstract class WrappedArray[T]
 extends IndexedSeq[T]
     with ArrayLike[T, WrappedArray[T]]
-    with Parallelizable[ParArray[T]]
+    with CustomParallelizable[T, ParArray[T]]
 {
 
   override protected[this] def thisCollection: WrappedArray[T] = this
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ extends IndexedSeq[T]
   /** The underlying array */
   def array: Array[T]
 
-  def par = ParArray.handoff(array)
+  override def par = ParArray.handoff(array)
 
   override def toArray[U >: T : ClassManifest]: Array[U] =
     if (implicitly[ClassManifest[U]].erasure eq array.getClass.getComponentType)
@@ -72,10 +72,6 @@ extends IndexedSeq[T]
   override protected[this] def newBuilder: Builder[T, WrappedArray[T]] =
     new WrappedArrayBuilder[T](elemManifest)
 
-  override def toParIterable = par
-
-  override def toParSeq = par
-
 }
 
 /** A companion object used to create instances of `WrappedArray`.