I have so far not specifically needed to multi-thread any of my code. I have, out of curiosity, tossed the odd @threads in front of one or two for loops to see if it made enough of a difference to bother, but the calculations didn’t justify the overheads.
I am now looking at some work that has (I believe) some potential to multithread (a large number of identical calculations on an array of independent inputs). While I am perfectly happy to work with the standard Threads library, I noticed a surprisingly large number of (helper) packages to facilitate multithreading.
As someone who has not thought about this much before, I was wondering what the preferred packages are in this area? I have scanned through the documentation of a few (Polyester.jl, ThreadPools.jl, ThreadsX.jl, FLoops.jl, etc.) and they all seem to be very interesting and user-friendly. I, however, can put aside time to learn only one or two of these.
Which package would be a good choice for the casual, non-expert user? And for what type of application, assuming there are horses for courses here? Even if this purely a personal preference, and not a technical recommendation, I would love to hear what people who actually use this would recommend.