From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>
Date: 2009-10-31T00:46:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Using multicore CPUs in parallel tasks

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:07 AM, James M. Lawrence
<quixoticsycophant@gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> processes = 4
>> count = 0
>>
>> my_array.each do |task|
>>    if count == processes
>>      Process.wait
>>      count -= 1
>>    end
>>
>>    fork do
>>      a_method(task)
>>    end
>>    count += 1
>> end
>>
>> Process.waitall
>
> Another option,
>
> Tiamat.open_local(4) {
>  pure do
>    fun_map :result => my_array do |elem|
>      a_method(elem)
>    end
>  end.compute.result
> }
>
> This lets you distribute across N physical machines without a change to
> the code.

This is just elegant =) ... it's funny how I observer something then
more of what I observer comes in to the fold! Was hoping you would
reply to the thread ;)
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>
>

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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

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