[Bioc-devel] BiocParallel

[Ryan C. Thompson]

On 11/17/2012 08:38 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> You can use mclapply via parLapply using the fork backend.
Oh, well, that's new to me. I guess that was added when multicore and 
snow were merged into the parallel package? If that's so, then parLapply 
is perfectly fine to use. However, I will note that foreach also has 
several other specialized backends, including a "null" backend that just 
runs things serially in-process, which means that in addition to 
switching parallelism types, one can also turn parallelism on and off at 
will without changing the code.

In any case, I'm not trying to say that foreach is the best solution for 
the future, and anyway foreach should automatically be able to use any 
parallelism method that is usable by parLapply.