Re: Parallel processing using Executor?
Zig wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:08 -0400, Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> wrote:
howa wrote:
Hello,
I am not sure why you said threading can't help much in my case, since
the foo() is a cpu intensive method.
I want to have the sum, I don't care the order hwo the sum was
calculated.
If we have multi-core machine, we can speed up the process by many
times, isn't?
Whether distributing the work to threads helps or not depends on how
long foo() takes. It is the sort of thing that would be easier to
measure than to estimate.
Patricia
Well, the usual strategy for cpu intensive methods is not to queue up
10000 events, but to partition your events per core. Eg, rather than
summing 1..10000, create a couple of java.util.concurrent.Callable(s) to
sum 1..5000 and 5001..10000 (or break it up as many ways as you have
available cores), and then just sum those results when the threads
complete. ...
I would agree with that strategy if, and only if, the time to do the
integer adds were the main issue. However, the focus seems to be on
foo(), with it described as "cpu intensive".
Of course, depending on how long foo() takes there may be situations in
which, after foo() is being done in parallel, the adds do become
significant. In that case, it would make sense to parallelize them as well.
Patricia
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