On 11/14/2012 10:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I would point out though that given how expensive disk writes are, unless you're doing a lot of work within the parallel foreach loop, there's a good chance that it would be more efficient to use std.concurrency and pass the writes to another thread to do the writing.
In the application I have in mind, there is a LOT of work that would be done within the parallel foreach loop -- we're talking at least 20 minutes' solid processing before the file write takes place, so this seems an appropriate approach given how simple it is.
That said, the separate-thread-for-writes is a nice concept and I'll have a play with it. Concurrency is something where I'm very much a beginner, so I'm very open to all suggestions -- thanks very much for this one!
