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. > >
