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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter / googlemail.com>wrote:

> On 10/29/2009 09:04 PM, Tony Arcieri wrote:
>
>> Ruby 1.9 isn't going to help you when using threads to distribute
>> computation across CPU cores.  The Global VM Lock ensures that
>> simultaneous
>> computation is still limited to one core.
>>
>
> Are you saying that the global VM lock even extends to several processes?
>  Because Marc did not want to use threads for distribution but rather
> processes.
>

No, if you look over my post again it specifically mentions the GVL applies
to threads and suggests using processes.

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Tony Arcieri
Medioh/Nagravision

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