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Add a note to sharedarrays documentation. #35807

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# Multi-process and Distributed Processing
# Multi-processing and Distributed Computing

An implementation of distributed memory parallel computing is provided by module `Distributed`
as part of the standard library shipped with Julia.
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which creates an `N`-dimensional shared array of a bits type `T` and size `dims` across the processes specified
by `pids`. Unlike distributed arrays, a shared array is accessible only from those participating
workers specified by the `pids` named argument (and the creating process too, if it is on the
same host).
same host). Note that only elements that are [`isbits`](@ref) are supported in a SharedArray.

If an `init` function, of signature `initfn(S::SharedArray)`, is specified, it is called on all
the participating workers. You can specify that each worker runs the `init` function on a distinct
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