From: kapheine@... (Zachary P. Landau)
Date: 2003-07-17T10:12:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Using threads to obtain a value

"Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@cs.utexas.edu> wrote in message news:<20030716172538.GA15712@cs.utexas.edu>...
> If the computation is just raw computation, I don't think you're going
> to see very much of a speedup by doing them in parallel.  If they are
> blocking for I/O or something like that at all, then there would be an
> improvement, but otherwise not.  Where is fetchdata getting the
> information from?  A remote source?

Yeah, it is fetching the information from webpages. Most of the code
other than waiting for pages to load is simple regexps, so I figured
this would be the perfect use for threads.