use Dask to parallelize document learning #182
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Description
Uses Dask to parallelize document learning via
/learn
. The current approach sees roughly a 2-3x performance boost.Before:
After:
Notes
The majority of the time spent by Dask is actually from the overhead of spawning a process. The grey bars represent deserialization of pickled data in each worker process:
There are some substantial improvements that can be made here.