I don't want to keep hammering on the possible interest of python in
this context... but have you seen this?
http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Parallel_Computing
I know, not exactly the same as multithreading ;)
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On Oct 28, 2006, at 5:10 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
I don't want to keep hammering on the possible interest of python in
this context... but have you seen this?
http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Parallel_Computing
I know, not exactly the same as multithreading ;)
Um - have you seen this?
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:11:11PM +0200, Ren? J.V. Bertin wrote:
Since Python has been mentioned in this context: Could not Python's
threading model and implementation serve as a guideline?
Why would you want to do that? Does that model have some particular
synergy with R's design or
Since Python has been mentioned in this context: Could not Python's
threading model and implementation serve as a guideline?
From a few simple benchmarks I've run, it seems as if the Python
interpreter itself is thread-safe but not threadable. That is, when I
run something pure Python like a
There are several sets of notes on threading off
http://developer.r-project.org page--somewhat old but still relevant.
The Python approach is discussed there. That approach, which gives
concurrency but not parallelism, is in principle fleasible for R but
getting from here to there is non-trivial
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Luke Tierney wrote:
There are several sets of notes on threading off
http://developer.r-project.org page--somewhat old but still relevant.
The Python approach is discussed there. That approach, which gives
concurrency but not parallelism, is in
But it still remains to be seen whether the extra work to introduce
threads is warranted. Will people actually use them in R and will it
have a significant impact on the computations or simply make writing
GUIs within R slightly easier to manage?
If threads can be set up easily, why not?
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
But it still remains to be seen whether the extra work to introduce
threads is warranted. Will people actually use them in R and will it
have a significant impact on the computations or simply make writing
GUIs within R slightly easier to manage?
Thanks, Duncan,
It is a mixture of two things. Yes, R is not thread safe so if
two system threads were to access R concurrently, bad things would
happen a.s.
That's clear, yes. :-/ And a pity, but so be it.
It is also an issue when Python is compiled and linked with
threaded options and
