Forkorting
Forkorting is a term used in some niche discussions of parallel processing to describe a technique that combines forking with sorting to produce ordered results from parallel work units. It is not a standard term in mainstream computer science literature, but it appears in open-source discussions and academic notes as a practical approach to building deterministic parallel pipelines. The word blends fork, referring to process creation by forking, and sorting, referring to arranging outputs in a defined order.
In a forkorting workflow, a parent process forks multiple child processes, each assigned a subset of the
Forkorting can be realized with operating system forks or threads, plus an inter-process or inter-thread communication
It is used in batch data processing, log analysis, and scientific pipelines where independent tasks yield outputs