Performance poor because we insisted on keeping track of the maxval and location during the execution of the loop.

• We do not care about the value during the execution of the loop, just the value at the end.

This is a common source of performance issues, namely the description of the method used to compute a value imposes additional, unnecessary requirements or properties

Idea: Have each thread find the maxloc in its own data, then combine and use temporary arrays indexed by thread number to hold the values found by each thread