On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 10:47:46 AM UTC+10, Jameson wrote: > > unhelpfully, i think gui's are actually a case where you may be better off > splitting your application into a client display process and one (or more) > parallel client processes, and not trying to carefully synchronize a bunch > of threads. >
YMMV > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:28 PM <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I guess one of the standard rather simple benefits of multi-threading is >> to allow long running computations to not freeze an applications UI. >> >> Its not a sexy highly parallel benefit, but very useful :) >> >> Cheers >> Lex >> >> >> On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 1:52:37 PM UTC+10, Viral Shah wrote: >>> >>> I am looking to put together a set of use cases for our multi-threading >>> capabilities - mainly to push forward as well as a showcase. I am thinking >>> of starting with stuff in the microbenchmarks and the shootout >>> implementations that are already in test/perf. >>> >>> I am looking for other ideas that would be of interest. If there is real >>> interest, we can collect all of these in a repo in JuliaParallel. >>> >>> -viral >>> >>> >>> >>>
