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Table 4 Multi-process pull time versus single process pull time (minutes) into a regular directory

From: kegg_pull: a software package for the RESTful access and pulling from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Gene and Genomes

Database name

Multi-process pull time

Single process pull time

Number Of entries

Pathway

0.1

1.05

558

Compound

6.4

73.62

19,004

KO

8.32

74.0

25,458

  1. The amount of time to pull and save all the entries of a given database on a single process (one core) compared to pulling across multiple processes (multiple cores). The above values result from running kegg_pull on a 12 hyper-threaded core machine using 12 processes for multiprocessing and one process for single-processing. The sleep time and all other options for each were also constant. Files were saved in a regular directory
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BMC Bioinformatics

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