From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T07:40:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Pipelined Processing

On 11/20/05, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this came up recently on IRC: question was how to chain processing so that
> each step runs concurrently to other steps.  While I don't see real benefit
> as long as there are no native threads in Ruby

One idea that springs to mind is to keep a responsive monitor thread
(e.g. GUI, console, remote) while performing a batch process by
splitting up an intensive computation into environmentally
thread-friendly chunks, represented by the blocks.

> Do
> with this whatever you like.
>
> Kind regards
>
>    robert

Thanks! I will :)

Regards,

Sean