Parallel GenericRecommenderIRStatsEvaluator?

2013-04-01 Thread Gabor Bernat
Hello, Is there any good reason why the *GenericRecommenderIRStatsEvaluator* does not support parallel (multi-CPU) evaluation. Today is quite common to have CPUs with more than one core, and IR evaluation on any reasonably sized data set takes forever to finish. I'm thinking if we could

Re: Parallel GenericRecommenderIRStatsEvaluator?

2013-04-01 Thread Sean Owen
No, just was never written I suppose back in the day. The way it is structured now it creates a test split for each user, which is also slow, and may be challenging to memory limitations as that's N data models in memory. You could take a crack at a patch. When I rewrote this aspect in a separate