'forkify' Category

• Process pooling with a Rinda Tuplespace

  August 25, 2009

  I going to talk about how I’m doing the process pooling in Forkify in this post, so let’s get started. Feel free to look up the code or fork the project from the Github Forkify project. The case for pool forking So, why even do pooling instead of serial forking? Let’s look at an example: […]

  posted in forkify, rinda, ruby, tuplespace by Lee

• Forkify 0.0.1 Ruby gem released, threadify with processes

  June 24, 2009

  I’m happy to announce the release of another tiny Ruby gem, Forkify. Forkify is basically Ara Howard’s Threadify (minus a few features), but instead of using threads, it uses fork to create multiple processes to perform the operations on an Enumerable type. It was born out of the desire to have the forkoff gem work […]

  posted in forkify, gem, ruby by Lee