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Patrick Tingen
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That would be cool, but I agree it would be like Pandora's box to Progress tech team. Suppose I spawn a second or third thread, how would locking then occur. Would it then be possible to lock yourself? The easiest way to poor man's MT is probably not suitable for every problem, but in the past I have used it to calculate invoices for clients. This process was very time consuming. They ran it during the weekend, but as business grew, the weekend became too short 
I speeded up the process by first eliminating parts that were not really necessary like the physical printing of the invoices. No need to wait for that. Next step was to split it up. Yes, here's your poor man's MT. We spawned N processes (configurable) and each process only processed customers where the customer number modulo N = process number . We were able to put back processing time to less than 6 hours.
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I speeded up the process by first eliminating parts that were not really necessary like the physical printing of the invoices. No need to wait for that. Next step was to split it up. Yes, here's your poor man's MT. We spawned N processes (configurable) and each process only processed customers where the customer number modulo N = process number . We were able to put back processing time to less than 6 hours.Continue reading...