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Date:	Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:20:04 PST
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Call for programmers - adopt-an-app lives

In <396038FA.150D@peterskye.com>, on 07/02/00
at 11:56 PM, Peter Skye said:

>Multiple instances is not a good idea. You need some kind of front-end

I agree. I was just answering your question. :-)

>To maximize throughput, _everything_ has to _finish_ at the _exact_ same
>time. You have to control the priorities of your parallel
>threads/instances so that everything finishes simultaneously. Tasks that
>get ahead of the others have to get their priorities reduced so
>everything marches in lock step towards completion. If there are other

Yes, this is all true, depending on your definition of "maximize
throughput". There are several ways to define this. You definition seems
to be "maximize the number of fully downloaded and decoded articles over
time".

>By the way, forcing all parallel tasks to maintain an "equal percentage
>done" position forces the tasks that cause the bottlenecks to the top of
>the priority list. Somewhere around here I have an unpublished paper
>about this -- "somebody" told me no one was interested in such
>mathematical treatises, so I never submitted it for publication anywhere

Wonder who the somebody was? ACM might be.

Steven

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