Enable caching of sourceCpp compilations across R sessions #504

jjallaire · 2016-07-11T17:42:06Z

This PR adds a cacheDir argument to sourceCpp to enable caching of shared libraries across R sessions. The argument defaults to tempdir() which emulates the existing default behavior of only caching compilations within the current R session.

The implementation changes the storage of the data structure that tracks previous compilations from a static C++ object to disk based storage (a serialized R list) within the specified cacheDir.

This feature is motivated by the desire to cache Rcpp chunks within knitr documents (particularly important for book authoring). See rstudio/bookdown#113 for additional discussion.

eddelbuettel · 2016-07-11T17:49:54Z

Regarding the Travis timeout, I am wrapping the test call in travis_wait which "works", but is annoying as all output is suppressed til done.

Do we know whether Travis is just slow? We used to get done in about 8 minutes ... so can we be sure it is not the changeset here?

coatless · 2016-07-11T17:57:53Z

Apologies in advance for not contributing anything of substance next, but...

This is awesome!

jjallaire · 2016-07-11T18:11:58Z

I think that it's the changeset. Here's why: the cache of compiled R
functions is now persisted to disk rather than stored in memory. Further,
when we lookup a function in the cache we read the entire "database" (an R
list) and then re-write the entire database after the compilation. This
introduces some O(N) behavior, which mostly doesn't matter for order of a
couple dozen C++ compilation units, but our unit tests introduce so many
C++ compilation units that we're hitting this in a material way.

Let me think about some possible ways out of this box....

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Regarding the Travis timeout, I am wrapping the test call in travis-wait
https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rquantlib/blob/master/.travis.yml#L30-L31
which "works", but is annoying as all output is suppressed til done.

Do we know whether Travis is just slow? We used to get done in about 8
minutes ... so can we be sure it is not the changeset here?

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eddelbuettel · 2016-07-11T18:20:26Z

Good analysis. In which case we can surely just prefix with travis_wait which is documented here.

At least until we have a better fix.

jjallaire · 2016-07-11T19:43:03Z

Kevin just helped me get to the bottom of things (it was actually a bug
that was preventing 2nd and subsequent calls to sourceCpp from working
correctly, which led to failed tests and ultimately a crash).

The latest commit should get us back to green on Travis.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:11 PM, JJ Allaire jj.allaire@gmail.com wrote:

I think that it's the changeset. Here's why: the cache of compiled R
functions is now persisted to disk rather than stored in memory. Further,
when we lookup a function in the cache we read the entire "database" (an R
list) and then re-write the entire database after the compilation. This
introduces some O(N) behavior, which mostly doesn't matter for order of a
couple dozen C++ compilation units, but our unit tests introduce so many
C++ compilation units that we're hitting this in a material way.

Let me think about some possible ways out of this box....

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Regarding the Travis timeout, I am wrapping the test call in travis-wait
https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rquantlib/blob/master/.travis.yml#L30-L31
which "works", but is annoying as all output is suppressed til done.

Do we know whether Travis is just slow? We used to get done in about 8
minutes ... so can we be sure it is not the changeset here?

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eddelbuettel · 2016-07-11T19:45:53Z

Yay yay yay -- I was starting to fear you two would get turned off working on this forever and ever :)

eddelbuettel · 2016-07-12T12:30:20Z

I just merged #503 which you can probably bring in here too.

eddelbuettel · 2016-07-12T12:39:28Z

Running a rev.dep now with this PR #504 and the just merged #503.

…er)" This reverts commit f04c9ed.

jjallaire · 2016-07-12T17:57:58Z

Note that you'll need to update from the Rcpp branch again to try this out.

eddelbuettel · 2016-07-12T18:13:01Z

Nice work -- using the Fibonacci example referenced by @yihui:

R> library(Rcpp)
R> sourceCpp("fib.cpp", cacheDir=".")
R> sourceCpp("fib.cpp", cacheDir=".")
R> sourceCpp("fib.cpp", cacheDir=".")
R> system("tree")
.
├── fib.cpp
└── sourceCpp-0.12.5.6-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-70800
    ├── cache.rds
    ├── sourcecpp_209b23f927e0
    │   ├── fib.cpp
    │   ├── fib.cpp.R
    │   ├── fib.o
    │   └── sourceCpp_2.so
    └── token.rds

2 directories, 7 files
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yihui · 2016-07-12T18:22:55Z

I quickly inspected cache.rds and fib.cpp.R, and saw absolute paths were used. I wonder if it is okay to just use relative paths, because absolute paths means you cannot move the cache directory to other places.

jjallaire · 2016-07-12T18:44:31Z

I agree that it would be better to use relative paths here however the
absolute path assumption runs pretty deep through the sourceCpp
implementation so I think it would be too risky to try to unwind it right
now.

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I quickly inspected cache.rds and fib.cpp.R, and saw absolute paths were
used. I wonder if it is okay to just use relative paths, because absolute
paths means you cannot move the cache directory to other places.

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dcdillon · 2016-07-12T20:06:03Z

What happens if you sourceCpp on two files with the same relative name in the same session? After a setwd for instance.

jjallaire · 2016-07-12T20:49:24Z

That will work fine (the cache is keyed by absolute path not relative path).

jjallaire · 2016-07-12T20:51:55Z

Note that this PR doesn't change anything about how the cache works other than it's now stored on disk rather than in memory. For cacheDir = tempdir() (the default) this will result in identical behavior to the current system. For cacheDir = ~/tmp/mycache it will result in a cache that persists across sessions. The motivation for this is interoperability with the knitr cache (see yihui/knitr#1239)

kevinushey · 2016-07-12T21:12:37Z

What about allowing users to set a cache directory with an R option or something like that? E.g. rcpp.cache.dir?

eddelbuettel · 2016-07-12T21:15:45Z

I like that idea.

All it would take is to change

cacheDir = tempDir()

to

cacheDir = getOption("rcpp.cache.dir"), tempDir() )

The second argument (default=NULL) for getOption() is really useful.

jjallaire · 2016-07-12T21:38:15Z

Okay, just added this.

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I like that idea.

All it would take is to change

cacheDir = tempDir()

to

cacheDir = getOption("rcpp.cache.dir"), tempDir()

The second argument (default=NULL) for getOption() is really useful.

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eddelbuettel · 2016-07-13T03:29:22Z

This too should be ready per the reverse depends check summarized here so I will merge this.

yihui · 2016-07-13T08:52:08Z

Cool. The knitr PR was also merged, so ````{Rcpp cache=TRUE}` is ready to be used with the dev versions of knitr and Rcpp now.

jjallaire added 6 commits July 11, 2016 11:45

initial work on cacheDir

f3d4961

fix typo in path list element

4d4f1a1

use double for lastModified rather than time_t

669d72b

add cacheDir to usage in Rd files

4bd5104

get cache varible w/o direct reference (R CMD check)

566832a

use cacheDir for code temporary file

2fc52c5

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Enable caching of Rcpp engine chunks yihui/knitr#1239

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jjallaire added 2 commits July 11, 2016 14:55

don't compress dynlib cache

f7e1024

test for nzchar rather than !is.null

7419dfc

jjallaire added 2 commits July 12, 2016 08:18

return buildDirectory with sourceCpp results

a882203

don't use cacheDir for code temp file (creates permanent litter)

f04c9ed

jjallaire added 4 commits July 12, 2016 12:00

correctly insert code into cache

6f43bb5

Revert "don't use cacheDir for code temp file (creates permanent litt…

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…er)" This reverts commit f04c9ed.

check that cppSourcePath exists before returning cache entry

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bump version

85fc4c2

add cleanupCacheDir option to sourceCpp

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jjallaire added 2 commits July 12, 2016 17:35

bump version

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add rcpp.cache.dir option for global cacheDir setting

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eddelbuettel merged commit cf4c162 into master Jul 13, 2016

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