2009/10/29 Tony Arcieri <tony / medioh.com>:
> 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.  ¨Βθε Ημοβαμ ΦΝ Μογλ εξσυςετθατ
>>> simultaneous
>>> computation is still limited to one core.
>>
>> Are you saying that the global VM lock even extends to several processes?
>>  ¨Βεγαυσε Ναςγ διξοχαξτ το υστθςεαδζοδιστςιβυτιοξ βυςατθες
>> processes.
>
> No, if you look over my post again it specifically mentions the GVL applies
> to threads and suggests using processes.

I figured as much.  The thread discussion does not help Marc, because
he explicitly wanted to use processes for core utilization.  Basically
Glen sent us in the wrong direction though. :-)

Cheers

robert


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