[Rd] How to execute R scripts simultaneously from multiple threads

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Erik van Zijst wrote:
> Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
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>> At some point (years ago) there was even an argument on some mailiing list 
>> (xfree86-devel ?) about whether Xserver should support shared memory as unix 
>> socket was "fast enough" - with the other side arguing that when you pass 
>> megabyte images around (as in DVD playback) there is non-negligible overhead.
> 
> We're currently doing performance tests with the RServe-approach where 
> we measure the actual evaluation time of a function. I'm interested in 
> the evaluation-time versus overhead ratio. Loopback TCP might work as 
> long as this ratio is sufficiently high.

Slightly off-topic, Vladimir sounded as if there was any argument of 
supporting shared memory in X... AFAIK, the shared memory extension
*is* part of Xorg!

$ grep 'MIT-SHM' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM

- the shared memory extension is also crucial for
client-side font-rendering (xft/freetype) a.k.a. all those
nicely anti-aliased texts in firefox and openoffice, besides
DVD playbacks.

HTL