From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2007-10-13T23:29:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a standard pattern for threaded access to a file?

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On 10/12/07, Jon Handler <jhandler@shopping.com> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty new to ruby and this is one of those areas where I can't
> quite seem to turn my head inside out as the language requires :-)
>
> I have a log file that I want to process in parts, with multiple threads
> working from the same file, each one getting a line at a time and doing
> something with it.
>
> I'd like something like
>
> 1. Open the file
> 2. Create 5 threads
>
> Each thread should read a line of the file and process it, but no 2
> threads should get the same line.



Why are you doing this in the first place? Do you have a computer with five
processors and five memory buses?

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