Fairer queueing for parallel workers in RBI generation

Gemfile.lock

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ PATH
   specs:
     tapioca (0.7.0)
       bundler (>= 1.17.3)
+      parallel (>= 1.21.0)
       pry (>= 0.12.2)
       rbi (~> 0.0.0, >= 0.0.14)
       sorbet-static-and-runtime (>= 0.5.9204)

lib/tapioca/executor.rb

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 require "etc"
+require "parallel"
 
 module Tapioca
   class Executor
@@ -20,10 +21,6 @@ def initialize(queue, number_of_workers: nil)
         number_of_workers || [Etc.nprocessors, (queue.length.to_f / MINIMUM_ITEMS_PER_WORKER).ceil].min,
         Integer
       )
-
-      # The number of items that will be processed per worker, so that we can split the queue into groups and assign
-      # them to each one of the workers
-      @items_per_worker = T.let((queue.length.to_f / @number_of_workers).ceil, Integer)
     end
 
     sig do
@@ -32,48 +29,9 @@ def initialize(queue, number_of_workers: nil)
       ).returns(T::Array[T.type_parameter(:T)])
     end
     def run_in_parallel(&block)
-      # If we only have one worker selected, it's not worth forking, just run sequentially
-      return @queue.map { |item| block.call(item) } if @number_of_workers == 1
-
-      read_pipes = []
-      write_pipes = []
-
-      # If we have more than one worker, fork the pool by shifting the expected number of items per worker from the
-      # queue
-      workers = (0...@number_of_workers).map do
-        items = @queue.shift(@items_per_worker)
-
-        # Each worker has their own pair of pipes, so that we can read the result from each worker separately
-        read, write = IO.pipe
-        read_pipes << read
-        write_pipes << write
-
-        fork do
-          read.close
-          result = items.map { |item| block.call(item) }
-
-          # Pack the result as a Base64 string of the Marshal dump of the array of values returned by the block that we
-          # ran in parallel
-          packed = [Marshal.dump(result)].pack("m")
-          write.puts(packed)
-          write.close
-        end
-      end
-
-      # Close all the write pipes, then read and close from all the read pipes
-      write_pipes.each(&:close)
-      result = read_pipes.map do |pipe|
-        content = pipe.read
-        pipe.close
-        content
-      end
-
-      # Wait until all the workers finish. Notice that waiting for the PIDs can only happen after we read and close the
-      # pipe or else we may end up in a condition where writing to the pipe hangs indefinitely
-      workers.each { |pid| Process.waitpid(pid) }
-
-      # Decode the value back into the Ruby objects by doing the inverse of what each worker does
-      result.flat_map { |item| T.unsafe(Marshal.load(item.unpack1("m"))) }
+      # To have the parallel gem run jobs in the parent process, you must pass 0 as the number of processes
+      number_of_processes = @number_of_workers == 1 ? 0 : @number_of_workers
+      Parallel.map(@queue, { in_processes: number_of_processes }, &block)
     end
   end
 end

spec/executor_spec.rb

@@ -11,22 +11,11 @@ class ExecutorSpec < Minitest::Spec
         @executor = T.let(Executor.new(@queue), Executor)
       end
 
-      it "splits the queue into a group per worker" do
-        received_numbers = []
-
-        @executor.run_in_parallel do |number|
-          received_numbers << number
-        end
-
-        assert_equal(@queue.length, received_numbers.length)
-        assert_equal(@queue, received_numbers.sort)
-      end
-
       it "runs sequentially when the number of workers is one" do
         executor = Executor.new(@queue, number_of_workers: 1)
         parent_pid = Process.pid
 
-        executor.run_in_parallel do |_|
+        executor.run_in_parallel do
           assert_equal(parent_pid, Process.pid)
         end
       end
@@ -35,7 +24,7 @@ class ExecutorSpec < Minitest::Spec
         executor = Executor.new(@queue, number_of_workers: 4)
         parent_pid = Process.pid
 
-        executor.run_in_parallel do |_|
+        executor.run_in_parallel do
           refute_equal(parent_pid, Process.pid)
         end
       end

tapioca.gemspec

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.metadata["allowed_push_host"] = "https://rubygems.org"
 
   spec.add_dependency("bundler", ">= 1.17.3")
+  spec.add_dependency("parallel", ">= 1.21.0")
   spec.add_dependency("pry", ">= 0.12.2")
   spec.add_dependency("rbi", "~> 0.0.0", ">= 0.0.14")
   spec.add_dependency("sorbet-static-and-runtime", ">= 0.5.9204")