In this case, I think he has four shovels available (quad core). The mosh pit mine analogy still holds however. Throw in a long, slow, creaky elevator ride for the start/reap of miner threads. Shoving a million people into the mine and bringing them back out takes far longer than it does to actually swing the four shovels a quarter million times each.

The code should probably be refactored into four guys sharing the four shovels, with a list of places to dig next after they finish their current one, and only take the expensive elevator back up to the surface when everything is done. If there is a lot of I/O paperwork to do before swinging the shovel each time, then you could use three or four miners per shovel; most of them won't need the shovel at any one time.

In reply to Re^2: ForkManager Running Real Slow by SuicideJunkie
in thread ForkManager Running Real Slow by zacc

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