The minimize the additional memory used by mclapply, remember that
mclapply works by forking processes, and the advantage of this is that
as long as an object is not modified in either the parent or child,
they will share the memory for that object, which effectively means
that a child process
On 11/14/2013 12:13 AM, Leonardo Collado Torres wrote:
Dear BioC developers,
I am trying to understand how to use mclapply() without blowing up the
memory usage and need some help.
My use case is splitting a large IRanges::DataFrame() into chunks, and
feeding these chunks to mclapply(). Let
