From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-04-19T00:59:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] forkoff - parallel processing for ruby enumerables


On Apr 18, 2008, at 6:23 AM, fedzor wrote:
> Since it's using Kernel#fork(), does this mean it is using OS threads?

yes.  forkoff has a number of consumer *green* threads used to manage  
an array of queues containing the elements destined to be passed to a  
forked process/native thread for execution of the block.  the code is  
very short, give a read.

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