Hi all,
I have built a GUI which performs 120 function calls at around 5 seconds execution time each. What I've tried to do is send them all out to batch jobs so that I can keep using the GUI while the crunching happens. The problem that I'm running into is that it takes almost as long as the execution time itself to send them all out to batch jobs. Here is the code snippet:
for i = 1:6
for j = 1:20
workerTable{i,j} = batch('lengthyFxn',7,{inputs related to i,j values});
disp(num2str(j));
end
end
My thought process is that I should be able to farm out all of the tasks quickly, which are just calling the same function with different input arguments based on the values of i,j in the loops, and then retrieve them later after the user has taken some time working in the GUI. I added the disp call just to see if anything was actually happening, because this assignment of tasks takes upwards of 5 minutes and the gui and workspace are blocked/unusable in the process. Is there a better or smarter way to do this?
