On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Florian Oswald <florian.osw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
There will be improvements but it's very likely still going to be experimental in 0.6. > > > 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. >> > >> > > >
