From: Tim Ferrell <s0nspark@...>
Date: 2010-02-21T09:50:09+09:00
Subject: Threads vs Processes


I have just switched back to Windows from the Mac/Linux world and my
first non-web Ruby project is a program to manage a bunch of independent
backup tasks ... the spec calls for allowing many tasks to be queued but
to only allow a certain number to run at a time. I don't foresee the
tasks needing to share any data with the parent process or each other
but that might be an option to keep open...

My first thought is to do something along the lines of a thread pool and
have each task as a thread... but then I thought of processes... I am
admittedly a but fuzzy on the distinction between processes and threads
in Ruby, especially on Windows... can someone shine some light on this
for me?

Would one approach be easier to manage in this type of scenario? Are
there any performance or portability issues I should be aware of?

Thanks much!
Tim
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