2012/7/10 Olivier Grisel <[email protected]>:
> When doing single node multi cpu parallel machine learning (e.g grid
> search, one vs all SGD, random forests), it would be great to avoid
> duplicating memory, especially for the input dataset that is used as a
> readonly resource in most of our common usecases.

I may be entirely mistaken here, but I always assumed copy-on-write
semantics would apply in joblib, so getting data from the master to
the workers would be free as long as the workers don't change the
data. Is that not the case?

-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam

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