2012/11/28 Mathieu Blondel <[email protected]>: > scikit-learn's RF is entirely written in Python (forest.py) so there may > still be some slow code paths. Moreover, their parallel implementation is > probably written with pthreads or OpenMP so they bypass the problems that we > have with Python's multiprocessing module.
I think this overhead is marginal - at the end of the day most time is spend on building the trees and there is certainly room for improvement there. -- Peter Prettenhofer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
