[Python-ideas] Delayed Execution via Keyword

[Joseph Jevnik]

You can let dask "see" into the function by entering it and wrapping all of
the operations in `delayed`; this is how daisy[0] builds up large compute
graphs. In this case, you could "inline" the identity function and the
delayed object would flow through the function and the call to identity
never makes it into the task graph.

[0]
http://daisy-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appendix.html#daisy.autodask

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:26 AM, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:15 PM, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
>>
>> This also means that a 'delayed' object needs to be idempotent.  So
>>
>> x = delayed 2+2
>>
>> y = delayed x
>>
>> z = delayed delayed delayed y
>>
>>
>> Wrapping more delays around an existing delayed object should probably
>> just keep the same object rather than "doubly delaying" it.  If there is
>> some reason to create separate delayed objects that isn't occurring to me,
>> evaluating 'z' would still go through the multiple evaluation levels until
>> it got to a non-delayed value.
>>
>
> This is sort of like how iterators "return self" and 'it = iter(it)'.
>
> In the case of Dask, wrapping more delayed objects creates layers of these
> lazy objects.  But I think it has to because it's not part of the syntax.
> Actually, I guess Dask could do graph reduction without actual computation
> if it wanted to.  But this is the current behavior:
>
> >>> def unchanged(x):
> ...     return x
> >>> a = delayed(unchanged)(42)
> >>> a
> Delayed('unchanged-1780fed6-f835-4c31-a86d-50015ae1449a')
> >>> b = delayed(unchanged)(a)
> >>> c = delayed(unchanged)(b)
> >>> c
> Delayed('unchanged-adc5e307-6e33-45bf-ad73-150b906e921d')
> >>> c.dask
> {'unchanged-1780fed6-f835-4c31-a86d-50015ae1449a': (<function
> __main__.unchanged>,
>   42),
>  'unchanged-adc5e307-6e33-45bf-ad73-150b906e921d': (<function
> __main__.unchanged>,
>   'unchanged-c3282bc4-bdaa-4148-8509-9155cac83ef0'),
>  'unchanged-c3282bc4-bdaa-4148-8509-9155cac83ef0': (<function
> __main__.unchanged>,
>   'unchanged-1780fed6-f835-4c31-a86d-50015ae1449a')}
>
> >>> c.compute()
> 42
>
>
> Actually Dask *cannot* know that "unchanged()" is the function that makes
> no transformation on its one parameter.  From what it can see, it's just a
> function that does *something*.  And I guess similarly in the proposed
> syntax, anything other than a plain name after the 'delayed' would still
> need to create a new delayed object.  So it's all an edge case that doesn't
> make much difference.
>
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