A RemoteRef lets up pass around a variable without actually moving the data (until you fetch)
On Wednesday, May 28, 2014, Eka Palamadai <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to persist a variable across function calls? > > Consider 2 functions foo and bar shown below : > ----------------------------- > function foo() > d = zeros(5) > for i = 1:5 > d [i] = i > end > end > > function bar() > println ("d", d) > end > > function test_parallel() > @spawnat 2 foo() > @spawnat 2 bar() > end > ----------------------------- > The code doesn't compile since d is not defined in function bar. > > foo defines array d but bar needs to use d as well. > > How could both foo and bar use d without passing d around? > > I could pass d back and forth, but i would like to avoid the communication > overhead. > Any ideas? > > Thanks. > > > >
