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.
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