Workers and Speed!!

Question

So my AIR application is a HUGE number cruncher. But since it is running on one thread, the deployed version still takes about an hour to process my data. If at all possible, I would like to get this down to about 15 minutes so I could run it several times a day. My computer has two XEON Quad Cores and almost 24GB of RAM, so I am not worried about overworking my machine. Currently, my main application is running at about 150MB.

So I am interested in speeding up my application using Workers. I have never tried using Workers to increase speed, so I wanted to ask people with experience with Workers if you think it is worth the effort. By splitting the processing load to four threads, do you think I could whittle the processing time down to 15 minutes, or is there a point at which adding more threads just increases overhead, and therefore you don't gain much? Or is it hugely advantageous?

User Unknow · Answer

From Worker - Adobe ActionScript® 3 (AS3 ) API Reference

A worker allows you to execute code "in the background" at the same time that other operations are running in another worker (including the main swf's worker). In a non-worker context some operations, for example processing a large set of data in a loop, take so long to execute that they prevent the main application thread from updating the screen quickly enough. This can cause stuttering or freezing the screen.

You can try fast memory operations.

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