From allane at cybaea.com  Tue Aug 31 13:39:06 2010
From: allane at cybaea.com (Allan Engelhardt)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:39:06 +0100
Subject: [Rd] R with multiple processors
In-Reply-To: <4C7BD98A.3070608@michelboaventura.com>
References: <4C7BD98A.3070608@michelboaventura.com>
Message-ID: <4C7CE9DA.3060604@cybaea.com>

Maybe you can use the same approach as the pnmath library which replaces 
many of the math functions with pthreads enabled ones when it is 
loaded?  That way people have a choice, and those who like to do things 
like doMC() and therefore want to keep the core R single-threaded can 
still do so.

Allan

On 30/08/10 17:17, Michel Boaventura wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was taking a look at R code, and there is some places that should be
> easily parallelized, as the dist() function, for example.
>
> Is there an interest on do such thing on R? I would like to start making
> patches to parallelize, but how comfortable with this are the main
> developers team on R?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michel
>
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[Rd] R with multiple processors
Allan Engelhardt