From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-10-14T23:36:20+09:00
Subject: A threaded 'find' library?

Hi all,

The recent talk of threaded access to a file made me wonder if I could 
do the same with a file searching lib (file-find in my case). This is 
the basic logic:

paths.each{ |path|
    Dir.foreach(path){ |file|
       paths << file if file is a directory (and not already searched)
       next unless file matches user-supplied pattern
    }
}

I thought I setting up a thread queue and spawning a new thread for each 
new directory would speed it up, but my (probably poor) attempts to 
implement it did not result in any speed improvements, and usually 
slowed it down a little bit.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dan