How to do task-level parallelism in Windows?

dubstep · May 11, 2011, 5:38am

I want to achieve better performance through parallelism. The
thread-level parallelism is not an option, because it is not really
parallel.

In Linux, kernel.fork makes it easy to achieve task level parallelism.

In windows, kernel.spawn seems to be the most closed equivalent.
However, it requires to specify the ruby.exe location and script
location explicitly, which may be not available at runtime.

Is there a better way to achieve task level parallelism in Windows?

zdyu · May 11, 2011, 6:04am

On 05/10/2011 08:38 PM, Zd Yu wrote:

I want to achieve better performance through parallelism. The
thread-level parallelism is not an option, because it is not really
parallel.

Is jruby acceptable? Jruby threads do make use of multiple processors.

zdyu · May 11, 2011, 6:43am

Joel VanderWerf wrote in post #997899:

On 05/10/2011 08:38 PM, Zd Yu wrote:

I want to achieve better performance through parallelism. The
thread-level parallelism is not an option, because it is not really
parallel.

Is jruby acceptable? Jruby threads do make use of multiple processors.

I need to use win32ole. I am afraid JRuby cannot do this.

zdyu · May 11, 2011, 7:07am

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Zd Yu [email protected] wrote:

Joel VanderWerf wrote in post #997899:

On 05/10/2011 08:38 PM, Zd Yu wrote:

I want to achieve better performance through parallelism. The
thread-level parallelism is not an option, because it is not really
parallel.

Is jruby acceptable? Jruby threads do make use of multiple processors.

I need to use win32ole. I am afraid JRuby cannot do this.

There is a jruby-win32ole gem – I haven’t used it, but it sounds like
it may do what you want.

zdyu · May 11, 2011, 9:42am

Christopher D. wrote in post #997903:

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Zd Yu [email protected] wrote:

Joel VanderWerf wrote in post #997899:

On 05/10/2011 08:38 PM, Zd Yu wrote:

I want to achieve better performance through parallelism. The
thread-level parallelism is not an option, because it is not really
parallel.

Is jruby acceptable? Jruby threads do make use of multiple processors.

I need to use win32ole. I am afraid JRuby cannot do this.

There is a jruby-win32ole gem – I haven’t used it, but it sounds like
it may do what you want.

I just tried it. It seems there are some compatible problems. My code
does not work with JRuby + jruby-win32ole, although it works well with
ruby + win32ole.

The error looks like:

Dispatch.java:-2:in `invokev’: org.racob.com.ComFailException: Invoke
of: Find
Source:
Description:

    from Dispatch.java:243:in `invokev'
    from Dispatch.java:187:in `callN'
    from RubyWIN32OLE.java:203:in `invokeMethodOrGet'
    from RubyWIN32OLE.java:112:in `method_missing'
    from RubyWIN32OLE$i$0$0$method_missing.gen:65535:in `call'
    from JavaMethod.java:642:in `call'
    from RuntimeHelpers.java:497:in `call'
    from CachingCallSite.java:345:in `callMethodMissing'
    from CachingCallSite.java:249:in `cacheAndCall'
    from CachingCallSite.java:71:in `call'
    from C:\my_tool.rb:1362:in `method__98$RUBY$find'

my code: (Excel manipulation)

keys = @workbook.Worksheets(“sheet name”).Range( “A1” ).EntireRow

current = keys.Find( value,
nil,
WIN32OLE::XlValues,
WIN32OLE::XlPart,
WIN32OLE::XlByColumns,
WIN32OLE::XlNext,
false,
false,
false )

==================
it seems the ‘Find’ method cannot be invoked.

zdyu · May 12, 2011, 2:44am

Yes, ge ridden of windows.

2011/5/11 Zd Yu [email protected]

I need to use win32ole. I am afraid JRuby cannot do this.
Dispatch.java:-2:in invokev': org.racob.com.ComFailException: Invoke from RuntimeHelpers.java:497:in call’
current = keys.Find( value,
==================
it seems the ‘Find’ method cannot be invoked.

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zdyu · May 15, 2011, 1:08am

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Zd Yu [email protected] wrote:

I just tried it. It seems there are some compatible problems. My code
does not work with JRuby + jruby-win32ole, although it works well with
ruby + win32ole.

Please report this bug at http://bugs.jruby.org. We intend for
jruby-win32ole to be 100% compatible with MRI win32ole, and we would
like to fix this. Thank you!

Charlie

zdyu · May 16, 2011, 2:58am

Charles Nutter wrote in post #998732:

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Zd Yu [email protected] wrote:

I just tried it. It seems there are some compatible problems. My code
does not work with JRuby + jruby-win32ole, although it works well with
ruby + win32ole.

Please report this bug at http://bugs.jruby.org. We intend for
jruby-win32ole to be 100% compatible with MRI win32ole, and we would
like to fix this. Thank you!

Charlie

I have filed a bug to jruby-win32ole@github:

github.com/enebo/jruby-win32ole

Compatability issue?

opened 09:34AM - 11 May 11 UTC

zdyu

The following piece of code works well on the C Ruby + win32ole but failed on JR…uby + jruby-win32ole. ``` ruby require 'win32ole' xl = WIN32OLE.new( "Excel.Application" ) if !defined? WIN32OLE::XlContinuous WIN32OLE.const_load( xl ) end workbook = xl.workbooks.add keys = workbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Range( "A1" ).EntireRow current = keys.Find( "abc", nil, WIN32OLE::XlValues, WIN32OLE::XlPart, WIN32OLE::XlByColumns, WIN32OLE::XlNext, false, false, false ) ``` error message: ``` Dispatch.java:-2:in `invokev': org.racob.com.ComFailException: Invoke of: Find Source: Description: from Dispatch.java:243:in `invokev' from Dispatch.java:187:in `callN' from RubyWIN32OLE.java:203:in `invokeMethodOrGet' from RubyWIN32OLE.java:112:in `method_missing' from RubyWIN32OLE$i$0$0$method_missing.gen:65535:in `call' from JavaMethod.java:642:in `call' from RuntimeHelpers.java:497:in `call' from CachingCallSite.java:345:in `callMethodMissing' from CachingCallSite.java:249:in `cacheAndCall' from CachingCallSite.java:71:in `call' from test.rb:12:in `__file__' from test.rb:-1:in `load' from Ruby.java:671:in `runScript' from Ruby.java:575:in `runNormally' from Ruby.java:424:in `runFromMain' from Main.java:278:in `doRunFromMain' from Main.java:198:in `internalRun' from Main.java:164:in `run' from Main.java:148:in `run' from Main.java:128:in `main' ```

zdyu · May 17, 2011, 4:37am

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Zd Yu [email protected] wrote:

I have filed a bug to jruby-win32ole@github:
Compatability issue? · Issue #3 · enebo/jruby-win32ole · GitHub

Thank you! Hopefully Tom will be able to look into it some time soon
(with RailsConf this week, it may be a bit).

Charlie