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From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: babel and long-running computations
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:52:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhv4ut1n.fsf@grothesque.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 534FA332.1080304@gmail.com

Hi Julian,

> Generally, org-babel is suited for long running computations.  Its
> caching can help you avoid rerunning code chunks.  And long runtime does
> not conflict with the idea of reproducible research, it just may be not
> very comfortable for the user.

I agree of course that it’s generally a good idea to structure the
analysis in small logical steps and to save intermediate results.  Let
me narrow down my question then: does org-babel support working with
tasks that take several minutes to execute?  By this I mean (most
important first):

- Not freezing the editor during the execution of a task
- Being able to execute multiple independent tasks in parallel
- Being able to interrupt a running task
- Being able to inspect the incomplete output of a running task

I’d love to hear about any frameworks or workflows that fulfill these
requirements.

Cheers

Christoph


PS.

I’m using ipython notebooks but I’m not happy with them because of the
freezing problem and the complete lack of isolation of tasks within a
single notebook (they live in a common mutable namespace).  I think a
useful framework must be “functional” at the highest level for caching
and dependencies to be useful.

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-17 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17  8:45 babel and long-running computations Christoph Groth
2014-04-17  9:47 ` Julian Gehring
2014-04-17 10:52   ` Christoph Groth [this message]
2014-04-17 12:06     ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-17 12:45       ` Christoph Groth
2014-04-17 14:58         ` Waldemar Quevedo
2014-04-17 15:29         ` Eric Schulte
2014-04-17 16:29           ` Christoph Groth
2014-04-17 16:44             ` Nick Dokos
2014-04-17 15:33     ` Eric S Fraga
2014-04-20 13:29     ` John Kitchin
2014-04-18 13:20 ` John Kitchin
2014-04-19 21:49   ` Christoph Groth
2014-04-20 13:21     ` John Kitchin

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