Firstly thanks also to Robby, Kevin and Rudiger for the detailed replies. Secondly:
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Robby Findler <[email protected]> wrote: > Assuming that you have multiple pages to process and that pages take > some non-trivial amount of time to process (seconds not milliseconds), > then making separate places to process pages seems like the right > starting point. > > If you find you want to get to some lower-level granularity (if you're > seeing too much work still at the page level (ie only 4 pages on an 8 > core machine), then you can then use futures inside the places to > break things up on a per-line or per-section of the page granularity. Lets see if I understand you correctly: If I have 8 cores and I'm processing 8 pages by using 8 places (one per page processing function) then thats optimal. But if I have an 8 core machine but am processing 4 pages in parallel by using 4 places then I can utilize unused cores by using futures within the places. Thanks, Harry Spier ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
