Better alternative to pmap in Clojure for parallelizing moderately inexpensive functions over big data?

Question

Using clojure I have a very large amount of data in a sequence and I want to process it in parallel, with a relatively small number of cores (4 to 8).

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Answer 1

Sadly not a valid answer yet, but something to watch for in the future is Rich's work with the fork/join library coming in Java 7. If you look at his Par branch on github he's done some work with it, and last I had seen the early returns were amazing.

Example of Rich trying it out.

http://paste.lisp.org/display/84027