gatk-3.8/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/TreeReducible.java

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package org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers;
/**
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/**
* Indicates that a class is tree reducible, aka that any two adjacent
* shards of the data can reduce with each other, and the composite result
* can be reduced with other composite results.
*/
public interface TreeReducible<ReduceType> {
/**
* A composite, 'reduce of reduces' function.
* @param lhs 'left-most' portion of data in the composite reduce.
* @param rhs 'right-most' portion of data in the composite reduce.
* @return The composite reduce type.
*/
ReduceType treeReduce(ReduceType lhs, ReduceType rhs);
}