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4466 :: Experimental parallel?

• apos80 (orginal) [2018-12-12T17:02:58+01:00] view original

  It seems that parallel using spawn is experimental. Is it safe to use?

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• Araq (orginal) [2018-12-12T18:05:15+01:00] view original

  If you manage to convince the "disjoint checker" you can use it, but unfortunately the underlying threadpool library is also pretty unreliable. But the worst offender here is the blockUntilAny API which parallel does not use.

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• apos80 (orginal) [2018-12-12T18:16:26+01:00] view original

  Damn, I like parallel computation.

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• mratsim (orginal) [2018-12-12T19:08:43+01:00] view original

  Depending on your parallel use case:

  • if you need data parallelism, you can use OpenMP, I wrote some helpers I find useful for parallel tensor computations here.
  • for task parallelism, there is an example of a worker queue in nimx

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• apos80 (orginal) [2018-12-12T19:21:17+01:00] view original

  Mostly math really.

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