desihub / specter

A toolkit for simulating multi-object spectrographs
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don't use numba cache #67

Closed sbailey closed 6 years ago

sbailey commented 6 years ago

This PR fixes #65 by disabling numba caching due to a race condition in writing the cache when using MPI. The performance hit of re-generating the numba compilation every time is minor compared to the overall runtime of extractions and pixsims.

Curiously, I was only able to reproduce the failure with installed versions of specter. Simply having a bare clone in my $PYTHONPATH worked (though I couldn't find if/where it was writing the cache in that case). I have confirmed that turning off that cache works with installed copies of specter (albeit with low-number-statistics on the runs).