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alignment_configuration_align_config_parallel

SeqAn's pairwise sequence alignment algorithm is internally accelerated using multi-threading. The parallel execution can be selected by specifying the seqan3::align_cfg::parallel configuration element. This will enable the asynchronous execution of the alignments in the backend. For the user interface nothing changes as the returned seqan3::algorithm_result_generator_range will preserve the order of the computed alignment results, i.e. the first result corresponds to the first alignment given by the input range. By default, a thread pool with std::thread::hardware_concurrency many threads will be created on a call to seqan3::align_pairwise and destructed when all alignments have been processed and the seqan3::algorithm_result_generator_range goes out of scope. The configuration element seqan3::align_cfg::parallel can be initialised with a custom thread count which determines the number of threads that will be spawned in the background.
Note that only independent alignment computations can be executed in parallel, i.e. you use this method when computing a batch of alignments rather than executing them separately.
Depending on your processor architecture you can gain a significant speed-up.

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