> Is there any official effort underway to make R thread-safe? If so, > are they looking for volunteers.
I'm looking forward to the answer to this question! > Would making R fully thread-safe > really make that much sense given you can parallelize vector/matrix > operations now (as you noted) which probably provides the most bang > for the buck. There are applications that could benefit from running several threads, yet not to accomplish the vector/matrix operations using blas. I thought about working on this and have picked up several important comments from this discussion. I have wondered, for example, if there is an option that a user can set to limit the number of threads (package multicore uses an option to set the number of cores). It seems that we need to agree on a few basic rules. If there are some already outlined, I would like to have a reference to them. If not, perhaps there is an on-going discussion on the topic someone could point me to. > Thanks, Nick. Nicholas L. Crookston, Operations Research Analyst Rocky Mountain Research Station USDA Forest Service 1221 South Main, Moscow, ID 83843 Office: (208) 883-2317, FAX: (208) 883-2318 EMail: ncrooks...@fs.fed.us ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
