Source code for parallel

"""
Runs evaluation functions in parallel subprocesses,
in order to evaluate multiple genomes at once.
"""
from multiprocessing import Pool

class ParallelEvaluator(object):
    def __init__(self, num_workers, eval_function, timeout=None):
        """
        eval_function should take one argument, a tuple of
        (genome object, config object), and return
        a single float (the genome's fitness).
        """
        self.num_workers = num_workers
        self.eval_function = eval_function
        self.timeout = timeout
        self.pool = Pool(num_workers)

    def __del__(self):
        self.pool.close() # should this be terminate?
        self.pool.join()

    def evaluate(self, genomes, config):
        jobs = []
        for ignored_genome_id, genome in genomes:
            jobs.append(self.pool.apply_async(self.eval_function, (genome, config)))

        # assign the fitness back to each genome
        for job, (ignored_genome_id, genome) in zip(jobs, genomes):
            genome.fitness = job.get(timeout=self.timeout)