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Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work?

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From David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca>
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Subject Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work?
Date Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:34:49 -0400
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On 30/07/2012 7:27 PM, qwertmonkey@syberiaoutpost.ru wrote:
>>> Is there a way to make these processors pick up/share work also, or
>>> do you have to use some sort of scheduling framework on top of java?
>
>> Use multiple threads?
> ~
>   a) I need to actually scan large text files (10+ million lines).
>   b) On each line there is a NL sentence.
>   c) That processing should be run only once, but as fast as possible.
> ~
>   d) If you go:
>   d.1) int iPrx = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();
>   d.2) count all lines
>   d.3) split the file in (total lines)/iPrx
>   d.4) then run iPrx threads (or executable instances using a batch script)
>   the time you waste on d.2) and d.3) will make all that strat senseless

How slow is the NL processing? Does it make any sense to read lines in 
one thread and pass each off to one of the iPrx-1 other threads that 
might run on separate processors?

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How can you make idle processors pick up java work? qwertmonkey@syberiaoutpost.ru - 2012-07-30 23:27 +0000
  Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-07-30 19:34 -0400
  Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-07-30 16:40 -0700
  Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work? Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-07-30 19:51 -0400
  Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-30 23:45 -0400

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