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.

Tips

Single-threaded (non-concurrent) solutions can pass all tests but you should try to implement the solution using parallelism. You can do this by using multiple Threads.

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.

Setup

Go through the setup instructions for Java to install the necessary dependencies:

https://exercism.io/tracks/java/installation

Running the tests

You can run all the tests for an exercise by entering the following in your terminal:

$ gradle test

Use gradlew.bat if you're on Windows

In the test suites all tests but the first have been skipped.

Once you get a test passing, you can enable the next one by removing the @Ignore("Remove to run test") annotation.

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

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