On Jun 4, 2007, at 6:56 AM, Jon Harrop wrote:

>
> When you apply this map to an array, a new process is forked for  
> each element.
> As forking is time consuming, you should only apply this to short  
> arrays.

It might be worth your while to implement a process pool.  I said  
before that I fork of one base process from which to fork the others,  
and it's not possible to make that process just a controller for a  
pool of waiting processes.

--Jonathan