delay() 函数有什么作用(在 Python 中与 joblib 一起使用时)

问题描述

我已经阅读了 文档，但我不明白这是什么意思:延迟函数是一个简单的技巧，可以使用函数调用语法创建元组(函数、args、kwargs).

I've read through the documentation, but I don't understand what is meant by: The delayed function is a simple trick to be able to create a tuple (function, args, kwargs) with a function-call syntax.

我正在使用它来遍历我想要操作的列表(allImages)，如下所示:

I'm using it to iterate over the list I want to operate on (allImages) as follows:

def joblib_loop():
    Parallel(n_jobs=8)(delayed(getHog)(i) for i in allImages)

这会返回我想要的 HOG 功能(并使用我所有的 8 个内核来提高速度)，但我只是不确定它实际上在做什么.

This returns my HOG features, like I want (and with the speed gain using all my 8 cores), but I'm just not sure what it is actually doing.

我的 Python 知识充其量还可以，但我很可能缺少一些基本知识.任何指向正确方向的指针将不胜感激

My Python knowledge is alright at best, and it's very possible that I'm missing something basic. Any pointers in the right direction would be most appreciated

推荐答案

如果我们看看如果我们简单地写会发生什么事情会变得更清楚

Perhaps things become clearer if we look at what would happen if instead we simply wrote

Parallel(n_jobs=8)(getHog(i) for i in allImages)

在这种情况下，可以更自然地表达为:

which, in this context, could be expressed more naturally as:

1. 使用 n_jobs=8
创建一个 Parallel 实例
2. 创建列表[getHog(i) for i in allImages]
3. 将该列表传递给 Parallel 实例

1. Create a Parallel instance with n_jobs=8
2. create the list [getHog(i) for i in allImages]
3. pass that list to the Parallel instance

有什么问题?当列表被传递给 Parallel 对象时，所有 getHog(i) 调用都已经返回 - 所以没有任何东西可以并行执行！所有的工作都已经在主线程中按顺序完成了.

What's the problem? By the time the list gets passed to the Parallel object, all getHog(i) calls have already returned - so there's nothing left to execute in Parallel! All the work was already done in the main thread, sequentially.

我们实际上想要的是告诉Python我们想用什么参数调用什么函数，没有实际调用它们——换句话说，我们想要延迟执行.

What we actually want is to tell Python what functions we want to call with what arguments, without actually calling them - in other words, we want to delay the execution.

这是 delayed 方便我们做的事情，语法清晰.如果我们想告诉 Python 我们想稍后调用 foo(2, g=3)，我们可以简单地写成 delayed(foo)(2, g=3).返回的是元组 (foo, [2], {g: 3})，包含:

 [delayed(getHog)(i) for i in allImages]

 [(getHog, [img1], {}), (getHog, [img2], {}), ... ]