MongoDB: What's the point of using MapReduce without parallelism?

Question

Quoting http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/MapReduce#MapReduce-Parallelism

As of right now, MapReduce jobs on a single mongod process are single thre

Answer 1

super fast map/reduce is on the roadmap

it will not be in the 1.6 release (summer release)

so late this year likely