in reply to Re: Using fork for reading and processing a large file in ActiveState perl
in thread Using fork for reading and processing a large file in ActiveState perl

Dude, read the other posts before replying, you're answer is completely wrong for the OP's problem.
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Re^3: Using fork for reading and processing a large file in ActiveState perl
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 25, 2010 at 14:36 UTC

    Same is true for 6 of his last 10 posts.

Re^3: Using fork for reading and processing a large file in ActiveState perl
by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 25, 2010 at 16:45 UTC
    Dude, read the other posts before replying,

    I did, no one mentioned to him how to bring in his huge file, and effectively split it, in order to hand them off to his threads for the parallel-processing. The OP asked I am reading and processing a huge file and recording results to another file which takes hundreds of hours. I want to run this task in multithreads..

    How is it wrong to show how to get his input file split into bite sized chunks for his threads? I question whether you understand what needs to be done in an actual program. Maybe you didn't actually look at the link I provided? I showed him the various ways to achieve the first step needed for his code. See How to break up a long running process for some parallel processing usage.


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      I did

      Your reading skills are lacking. Here the OP says he needs to read a small file and write to a large file. The link you gave as well as the nonsense you posted ("threads don't help on a single-core processor, but multi-core machines magically reduce IO time") do not help with that problem.
        Yes, my apologies....I was having some stressful health problems. I read better now. :-)

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