Dear Uwe,
I have attached the info from the parallel package
description from my Rstudio IDE:
Package: parallel
Version: 4.1.2
Priority: base
Title: Support for Parallel computation in R
Author: R Core Team
Maintainer: R Core Team <do-use-contact-addr...@r-project.org>
Contact: R-help mailing list <r-help@r-project.org>
Description: Support for parallel computation, including by forking
(taken from package multicore), by sockets (taken from package snow)
and random-number generation.
License: Part of R 4.1.2
Imports: tools, compiler
Suggests: methods
Enhances: snow, nws, Rmpi
NeedsCompilation: yes
Built: R 4.1.2; x86_64-w64-mingw32; 2021-11-01 18:38:05 UTC; windows
It says: NeedsCompilation: yes
How about it?
Yours sincerely,
AKSHAY M KULKARNI
________________________________
From: Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2022 4:08 PM
To: akshay kulkarni <akshay...@hotmail.com>; Bert Gunter
<bgunter.4...@gmail.com>
Cc: R help Mailing list <r-help@r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] byte coding compiling.....
On 06.07.2022 19:54, akshay kulkarni wrote:
> Dear Bert,
> Thanks for your reply...
>
> So
>> cmpfun(mclapply)
mclapply is already byte compiled as it is in a package.
You may want to
cmpfun(yourFunction)
the function that you use in the mclapply call.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
>
> should do the job right?
>
> By the by, how can I give a reprex? Reprex of the code that I am giving to
> mclapply (as FUN argument)?
>
> Yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
> ________________________________
> From: Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 10:32 PM
> To: akshay kulkarni <akshay...@hotmail.com>
> Cc: R help Mailing list <r-help@r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] byte coding compiling.....
>
> Unlikely
>
> See here:
>
> https://www.r-bloggers.com/2017/08/how-to-make-best-use-of-the-byte-compiler-in-r/
>
> Byte code compilation should be automatic in both cases, as I understand it.
> Of course, I could be wrong due to special features of parallel programming,
> etc.
>
> A reprex might be helpful here.
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 7:29 PM akshay kulkarni
> <akshay...@hotmail.com<mailto:akshay...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
> Dear members,
> I am using pbmclapply, the progress bar version of
> mclapply, from the parallel package. The point is, pbmclapply is three times
> faster than mclapply, and I think the most probable reason would be that
> pbmclapply is byte code compiled (I can think of no other reason).
>
> I know the cmpfun function from compiler package. If I do:
>
>> cmpfun(mclapply)
>
> will the job be done? The point is mclapply may look for other functions in
> the parallel package. So I have to compile the whole package right? How do
> you do that? or in general, how do you byte code compile a whole package?
>
> Thanking you,
> Yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
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