On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 18:56 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On 5/26/05, Dean Michael C. Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > And while I'm on the subject of grep being concurrent, would fork be > > more portable than pthreads? Or would pthreads consume "less resources" > > on linux at least? > > Linux implements fork() using COW pages, so there's not much penalty > as opposed to using a more traditional Unix variant. However, if the > grep variant you want to develop would be able to exploit SMT and/or > SMP capabilities when doing a recursive search then it might be > interesting. >
I am thinking of implementing the fork/threading when processing more than one file -- may it be recursively in a directory, or when provided a list of files on the command-line. I'm still waiting for a "less hectic" time to actually implement it, and read through the grep sources first before I even try writing the code. :) -- Dean Michael C. Berris < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG Key: 0x08AE6EAC http://mikhailberis.blogspot.com Mobile: +63 921 7841815
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