pmap(f, c; distributed=false is not equivalent to asyncmap(f, c)

[rofinn]

In the docs the following calls are described as equivalent.

pmap(f,c; distributed=false) and asyncmap(f,c)

However, the pmap call will only run an asyncmap with ntasks equal to nworkers(p) (as shown here) while the asyncmap call will run a Task for each element of c. If this is the intended behaviour it would help to mention it in the docs to avoid confusion.

[amitmurthy]

Just adding a reminder to also handle ExponentialBackOff in the pmap retry case when closing this issue (#19331 (comment))

[rofinn]

Thanks @amitmurthy!