On Jul 14, 2014, at 11:29 AM, I wrote: > Really? I thought that the map function would be run in parallel on several > documents at once. Seems like an obvious way to speed up view updates; after > all, map/reduce as popularized by Google is intended to be a massively > parallel algorithm…)
Sorry, I realize I’ve fallen prey to the “any problem I haven’t worked on must be trivial” attitude, a common pitfall of engineers. :-p I’m sure there are good reasons this hasn’t been implemented yet, including the fact that JSVMs are single-threaded so you’d have to spin up several of them to be able to run map functions in parallel. But it would be a good optimization at some point, considering the large number of CPU cores that today’s server boxes have. —Jens
