From: Dmitry Nikiforov <dniq@...>
Date: 2012-02-04T03:12:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Basic Ruby performance

Josh Cheek wrote in post #1043970:

> It creates a Range, which just iterates, not an array. A more idiomatic
> way
> would probably be (1+10**8).times { ... }

Phew... :)

> As an aside, if all the processing is happening in the loop, then it
> might
> make more sense that the loop just delegates work out to other processes
> (e.g. parse a line or process a parsed set of data). This could be
> pretty
> simple if done with a thread pool in a single Ruby script (you'll want
> one
> of the alternate implementations here since you're CPU bound and MRI has
> a
> GIL), or as arbitrarily complex as you like.

Yeah, that's how it works in my Perl version - it all runs on Amazon, 
with workload delegated to "worker" servers in a MapReduce-like fashion, 
using Redis for inter-server communication.

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