Speed up with multiprocessing

[robbievanleeuwen]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Biaxial bending diagrams and to a lesser extent, interaction diagrams, can take a long time to generate. Both of these features involve a number of independent calculations, currently implemented in a for loop.

Describe the solution you'd like Using the python multiprocessing module would allow these computations to be performed in parallel on multiple cores, vastly speeding up these analyses.

[LunaCodeDemon]

I will work on it if you tell me in what file i should look and maybe even what function. I won't test it, if anything isn't working afterwards you can inform me.

[robbievanleeuwen]

Hi @ChinoCodeDemon,

Sorry for the delayed response!

The two calculation loops that are expensive and could be computed in parallel are:

1. Moment interaction diagram - loop starts here.
2. Biaxial bending diagram - loop starts here.

I won't test it, if anything isn't working afterwards you can inform me.

Not sure what you mean by this, I would expect some effort is put into ensuring the implementation is robust, even if it's just a simple test that compares the results from the parallel method to those determined from a simple for loop, see contributing guidelines here.

[LunaCodeDemon]

I cannot open a GUI since I work with containers. I could implement some tests.

[LunaCodeDemon]

I created a draft pr #37 which still is heavily work in progress. I will set it out of draft once everything is prove-able stable.