Is it safe to run this code in multithread way: modify the same data frame in loop

General Usage
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I wonder, is it safe to modify the same Data Frame in a multithread loop?

@threads for i in 1:size(df)[1]
df.column[i] = some_function(…)
end

Thank you in advance.

Best

2

Generally, yes. See https://github.com/JuliaData/DataFrames.jl/issues/1905

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I think this would be super slow due to type instability (especially when some_function also depends on an element of df) - the type of df.column is not known at compile-time. Better broadcast your function over a complete column, this would not be multi-threaded but probably much faster overall.

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Yes, you are right.
I just wonder, about how is safe to modify the same dataframe in the different threads. (not for sure not the same row of the df)