Welcome to Parfun’s documentation!

Parfun is a lightweight and user-friendly Python library to assist users in running a pure Python function i parallel on multiple core and distributed systems.

Users, who do not have any deep knowledge about parallelism and distributed computing systems, can benefit from significant speedups when running Python code.

Parfun supports multiple execution backend, including Python’s multiprocessing, Dask or Scaler.

Content

• Quick start
  • When to use it
  • Setup
  • Your first parallel function
  • Advanced partitioning
  • Combining functions
  • Nested parallel function calls
  • Profiling
• Implementation details
  • Design goals
  • Implementation
  • Partition size estimation
• API
  • parfun()
  • Partitioning functions
  • Combining functions
  • Utility functions
  • Backend
  • Entry Point

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page