On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for blowing up this thread. :)
>
> The VW implementation actually is very close to my draft idea, to fork
> new process for each #finalize,
> so it won't interfere with others, and on error, it won't stop stones
> rolling:
>  executors do: [:ex |     [ ex finalize ] fork   ].
>
> If there's no objections, we could arm this idea (use forked process,
> close to what VW does).
> Or should we do the hard way and avoid forking?
>
> P.S. btw, are we guilty already for violating copyright law here by
> looking at VW code? :)
>

No.  They haven't patented the algorithm.  The code is freely accessible
(its from vw non-commercial).  Just don't copy the code.

best,
Eliot


> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>
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