ok, thanks for that. do you think this is going to change already in v0.6 or will that have to wait until a future release?
On 14 November 2016 at 23:59, Yichao Yu <yyc1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Florian Oswald > <florian.osw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure how many people are using Base.Threads out there, I came > across > > it by accident and think it works great. It's under the heading > > "experimental" in the manual, so I just wanted to encourage the > developers > > that this is a great feature, please don't drop it. I just wrote > @threads in > > front of a loop in my code and time was cut by pretty much exactly > > JULIA_NUM_THREADS. > > It's experimental in that apart from some really simple cases, code > that uses thread can easily crash. > It is not recommended to use threading at this stage. > > > > > Along those lines, has anyone tried to run a hybrid job, i.e. connecting > > several machines via `addprocs` and running several threads on each of > those > > machines? Is something like that even possible and/or do you recommend > > something like that? There is not too much in the manual, so I would just > > like to get some more info. > > Doing so is certainly possible but is not recommended since threading > itself isn't. > > > > > thanks. > > > > >
