RubySource: Code Safari: Forks, pipes, and the Parallel gem

Thursday, 16 June 2011 16:30

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about splitting out work to be done into threads to improve performance of a URL checker. A commenter noted that the parallel gem could be used to achieve the same result, which got me all curious. I investigated the gem and found that not only can it parallelize into threads, it also supports splitting out work into multiple processes . I wonder how that works