On Friday, July 25, 2014 09:49:47 PM David A. wrote: > Is it possible to parallelize the execution of a C++ function using Julia? Yes, if you can call the C++ function in the first place. Currently your best bet is to write a C wrapper. There's the very primitive Cpp package, and Keno's got a real solution to the problem over at https://github.com/Keno/CXX.jl, but I don't know if it's really ready for users who are not Keno :).
> And would it be similarly efficient as doing it directly in C++? Depends on how you do it. You can, of course, just call pthreads from julia (it's a C library, after all). Alternatively start a number of julia processes. You will want to read the parallel programming section of the manual. --Tim
