On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Alex Williams <alex.h.wil...@gmail.com> wrote:
The basic question is why this doesn't define `x` on worker #2: > > *@spawnat 2 x=1* > Because it is wrapped in a closure; so `x` is local to the closure when the code is executed on the other process. To see the difference, try `@spawnat 2 global x = 1` then `@spawnat 2 names(Main)` > Meanwhile this seems to work: > > *@spawnat 2 eval(:(x=1))* > `eval` operates in global scope by default (you can optionally specify a module as the first argument). > And this seems to work if you want to define `x` on all procs: > > *@everywhere x=1* > This calls `eval`, see above :) I tried using macroexpand to see the difference. I don't have a good sense > of what things like `*:copyast*` and `*:localize*` mean. If someone could > help me parse this, I'd greatly appreciate it. > - `copyast` makes a copy of a given AST, handling GC roots, etc. (see definition as `jl_copy_ast` in "src/ast.c"). - `Expr(:localize, expr)` encloses the expression in a let block containing an entry for each variable referenced in the expression (see the definition of `localize_vars` in "base/expr.jl"). Apologies if there is a good explanation of this elsewhere on the web. You > can just point me there if so. > Chris Rackauckas has done some nice tutorials on parallelization recently, which might touch on some of this (check juliabloggers.com). If you have any improvement suggestions for the Base documentation, those would be great (PRs welcome). > -- Alex > >
