From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2009-06-30T20:15:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Parallelizing a ruby task

On Jun 29, 7:17 pm, Michael Linfield <globyy3...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Just throwing my 2 cents out here:
>
> What if you just created a daemon controller that threaded each process
> on a different core o_O?
>
> Would speed things up greatly whilst keeping control over each process.

That's the idea behind using a message queue -- it does that kind of
stuff for you. Workers are processes that will be distributed among
cores. The only thing I'm unsure about in a MQ architecture is the
collating of answers from all the worker threads, i.e. the Reduce part
of MapReduce.