[erlang-questions] about fun vs. functions schisofrenia

[Christian S]

Reading your post again, it seems like you really just want to ask how
to pmap nicely.

Check out this implementation of pmap:

  http://lukego.livejournal.com/6753.html

Even more impressive implementations of pmap might want to limit the number of
concurrently executing processes (say if each process would consume 5Mb of ram
at peak and the list has 2000 elements).