From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-04-19T03:24:41+09:00
Subject: Re: forkoff - parallel processing for ruby enumerables


On Apr 18, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Erik Veenstra wrote:
> I've once implemented Enumerable#fork myself. It doesn't use
> queues, or a producer-consumer like pattern. It simply tells a
> generic ThreadLimiter to spawn a new thread. Within this
> thread, a new process is spawned. The number of concurrent
> threads, and thus the number of concurrent processes, is
> controlled by ThreadLimiter.
>
> We might learn from both implementations.

this is precisely how forkoff manages the number of processes, only  
it's via Queues and a fixed number of threads consuming from those  
queues

the latest impl from svn:

http://p.ramaze.net/1141

regards.

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