Speaking of which, it would be nice if rpy was shipped with a vanilla locking mechanism.
R remaining probably thread-unsafe for the foreseeable future, I was thinking of having something like a two-locks mechanism that would lock R and release Python's GIL whenever an access to R is made. The expected benefits are: - explicit error message when someone tries a multithreaded approach (currently, I suspect that what is happening in such a case is unpredictable) - ability to have some level of parallelization where python-ish things can still be done while R is busy (useful for GUIs, or for cases where preparing a next batch of data can be done by python while R is still computing on the current batch) The downside I am seeing is it will make the handling of Python callbacks (python functions passed to R functions as arguments) complicated (if possible). Ideas, or help, on the matter are welcome. L. 2008/6/26 Gregory Warnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello Laurent, > > The R system itself is not thread safe, and has quite a bit of persistent > state. Therefore if you want to use R from multiple threads, you will need > to arrange to have a single thread interact with R at a time via appropriate > locking or delegation. > > -G > > > On 6/26/08 11:17AM , "laurent oget" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fellows, > > did anybody experiment with running rpy in 2 threads? > > ________________________________ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > > -- > Gregory R. Warnes, Ph.D > Program Director > Center for Computational Arts, Sciences, and Engineering > University of Rochester > > Tel: 585-273-2794 > Fax: 585-276-2097 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > rpy-list mailing list > rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
