RE: [racket-users] Re: trying to use futures for some calculations

2020-06-17 Thread Jos Koot
In addition, some time ago I did use futures which did parallelization very well when using distinct parts of the same vector. I did not need unsafe for that. Jos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group

RE: [racket-users] Re: trying to use futures for some calculations

2020-06-17 Thread Jos Koot
it will access. But for (very) primitive arithmetic functions this should be an avoidable problem, I think. Just my single one cent. Jos From: Robby Findler Sent: 17 June 2020 17:23 To: Brian Adkins Cc: Racket Users Subject: Re: [racket-users] Re: trying to use futures for some calculations On Wed, Jun 17

Re: [racket-users] Re: trying to use futures for some calculations

2020-06-17 Thread Dominik Pantůček
I've looked at it only briefly (it's the end of the semester and grading is due soon). > > > I would *love* to be proven wrong on this, but I think it's rare to > be able to get decent parallelization in practice using futures. You > may have better results using places, but it will

Re: [racket-users] Re: trying to use futures for some calculations

2020-06-17 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:56 AM Brian Adkins wrote: > On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 4:50:44 AM UTC-4, Alex Harsanyi wrote: >> >> >> I am trying to speed up an algorithm using futures, but I am getting some >> unexpected results (and no real speed improvements), and I was wondering if >> someone