On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 at 18:41, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > Sure, but that a completely bogus argument because in that case it would fail > even more spectacularly with any other method like PSOCK because you would > *have to* allocate n times as much memory so unlike mclapply it is guaranteed > to fail. With mclapply it is simply much more efficient as it will share > memory as long as possible. It is rather obvious that any new objects you > create can no longer be shared as they now exist separately in each process.
The point was that PSOCK fails and succeeds *consistently*, independently of what you do with the input in the function provided. I think that's a good property. -- Iñaki Úcar ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
