From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-06-08T20:23:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Waiting for condor output files

Milo Thurston <nospam@linacreschoolofdefence.org> wrote:
> Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > You might be better off with a thread per loop, then, which fills an
> > entry into a global array or hash when its particular job finishes. That
> > way, if you want you can start processing files as they come in, and not
> > block on waiting for the next in sequence to get done.
> 
> That's not something I've encountered yet.
> Are there any on-line examples I could take a look at, to see
> how it works?

Check out http://www.rubycentral.com/book/tut_threads.html - Ruby's
threading mechanism is amazingly lightweight.

martin