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Re: [scala] Scala Actors - no speedup?

by David Pollak :: Rate this Message:

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How many cores in your machine?

Martin Probst wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to implement Tim Bray's Wide Finder proposal
> (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/09/20/Wide-Finder) in Scala,
> using Actors. The code is here:
> http://www.martin-probst.com/2007/09/24/wide-finder-in-scala/
>
> Basically, it's about parsing a log file using regular expressions. In my
> code, I have one coordinator who reads the log file and sends work chunks
> to several analyzers, and the combines their work again.
>
> As I write there, I don't see any speedup when running the code using
> Actors in comparison with the serial version. Any ideas? Am I doing
> something wrong?
>
> Is there any way to specify the number of threads that should be used for
> Actor execution?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>  

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