Thank you all for your replies! Much appreciated.

2014/1/4 Hongli Lai <[email protected]>

> On Friday, January 3, 2014 8:14:51 PM UTC+1, Ryan Dahl wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Johan Alkstål <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> So should this forked child process always be running (and thus having
>>> all simulations use it) or should I fork one for each simulation run?
>>>
>>
>>> I mean if the simulations should be queued and executed in order or in
>>> parallel by multiple processes?
>>>
>>
>>
>> That'll depend on how long these simulations run and how many of them
>> there will be - but I would suspect you want on child process per
>> simulation.
>>
>
> It also depends on how expensive the startup of your code is. If it takes
> 5 seconds to start your simulation program then you should not create a
> process per simulation. Instead, you should keep the simulation program
> running and feed it input to avoid the startup cost.
>
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