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

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  To: qwertmonkey
From: "Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@1:261/38.remove-dpk-this>

  To: qwertmonkey
From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>

On 7/31/2012 12:14 AM, qwertmonkey@syberianoutpost.ru wrote: ...
>   I don't think this would make sense. All sentences are short and all I
> need to do is basically scan them and use look-up tables to do some tinkering
> with the code points. The scheduling of threads and constant context
switching
> will most probably make things slower

What context switching? This started out as a question about spare processors 
sitting idle while there is work to do.

Step 1 is to decide whether this workload is CPU bound or I/O bound. I assumed 
CPU bound because of the initial question about idle processors, but now it 
sounds as though the processing is trivial so the workload may be I/O bound.

If it is I/O bound you may not need more than one thread, but maybe should be 
looking at using non-blocking I/O to manage your own prefetches.

Patricia

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How can you make idle processors pick up java work? "qwertmonkey" <qwertmonkey@1:261/38.remove-x1c-this> - 2012-07-31 20:07 +0000
  Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work? "Joerg Meier" <joerg.meier@1:261/38.remove-x1c-this> - 2012-07-31 20:07 +0000
  Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work? "Joshua Cranmer" <joshua.cranmer@1:261/38.remove-x1c-this> - 2012-07-31 20:07 +0000
  Re: How can you make idle processors pick up java work? "Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@1:261/38.remove-x1c-this> - 2012-07-31 20:07 +0000

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