Parallel thoughts

[Andy Armstrong]

On 2 Oct 2007, at 10:12, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> The simple parser is still 3500% faster than the --fork -j 9.   
> Given the
> complexity of the IPC and the growing complexity of Harness.pm with  
> all
> of these embedded features (and it still has no nonblock mode for the
> gui subclass), I'm not liking the direction that things seem to be
> headed.

Well I agree completely - and I'm absolutely open to suggestions that  
give us a much faster parser with a similarly usable interface. An  
order of magnitude speed up would completely validate the  
multiplexing approach I think.

> And for the dotreader test suite, the --fork slows it down by about  
> 11%.

Oooh. I'll investigate.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten