# Does @distributed have any guarantees regarding order?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-distributed-have-any-guarantees-regarding-order/16381>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** distributed\
**Created:** [October 16, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-distributed-have-any-guarantees-regarding-order/16381 "2018-10-16T02:30:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-distributed-have-any-guarantees-regarding-order/16381/1 "2018-10-16T02:30:47Z")

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I’m running a parallel for loop with hcat as the reduction operation. Something like this

```julia
res = @distributed hcat for i=1:1000
    i
end

```

Is there any guarantee that i is in order? I saw some old pointers saying there was no guarantee but I tried it a dozen times on four processes and every time it came back sorted. Is this just a coincidence?