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Re: Linux to support Massive Multi-Threading (or dies)!

Christopher Browne

2004-11-15, 2:45 am

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com> wrote:
>
> Instead use:
> < $HOME/big_file filter1 | filter2 | filter3 > $HOME/output
> which requires only 3 processes to accomplish the same thing.

Yeah, that's a "gratuitous use of cat." So sue me. If there's a CPU
free, then it's a fairly irrelevant overhead.

Or add an extra few filters, so that there are _more_ processes,
thereby making use of extra CPUs.
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