From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-11-16T06:18:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6387] Re: lots of Threads

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

> If I have an array to be filled with computationally heavy stuff, 
> I could use a load of Threads to populate it in parallel.  If I often
> have to re-populate it, I don't want to kill them all off and start
> them again.

But why would that be faster? Ruby threads can't take advantage of
multiple processors, so unless filling the array also involves waiting 
for I/O, I'd guess it would go slower with threads (as the old Coke ad 
used to say).


Dave