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I'm happy with this as a hacky workaround, would only propose documenting why this is the way it is.
How would TuringLang/Turing.jl#2555 affect TSVI?
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| function ThreadSafeVarInfo(vi::AbstractVarInfo) | ||
| return ThreadSafeVarInfo(vi, [Ref(zero(getlogp(vi))) for _ in 1:Threads.nthreads()]) | ||
| return ThreadSafeVarInfo( | 
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Could we add a comment here explaining the situation and maybe linking to this PR or the relevant issue? The * 2 would otherwise appear quite mysterious.
          
 By making it opt-in, it would allow us to use  In contrast, now TSVI is mandatory whenever   | 
    
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           Oh right, because you can specify an AbstractVarInfo when you make a LogDensityFunction. Got it.  | 
    
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           Optimistically, I might be able to get that done by the end of this week, but if I find it's too hard I'll come back to this!  | 
    
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           I don't think the Turing PR will be done any time soon, so I figure we should just merge this. I added a comment as requested.  | 
    
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See #924 for background.
This PR adopts a similar approach to solution (1), i.e., using
Threads.maxthreadid(). However, Mooncake can't differentiatemaxthreadid(), so this is a hacky workaround to a hacky workaround, based on the observation thatmaxthreadid()seems to be upper-bounded bynthreads() * 2.Personally, I would be much more in favour of removing TSVI (or making it opt-in), and will probably do this in a separate PR once TuringLang/Turing.jl#2555 is solved.
But this is a quick enough fix that should ensure that TSVI continues to work on Julia 1.12 (even if for the wrong reasons). Whether we merge this will probably depend on how fast that Turing issue can be fixed -- if it's soon, then we can remove TSVI, if it's not soon, then this can plug the gap.
Note that if TSVI is opt-in, then we can just use
maxthreadid(), thereby removing one layer of hackiness — because Mooncake doesn't work with multithreaded execution anyway, the scenarios where you'd want to opt into TSVI have no overlap with the scenarios where you'd want to use Mooncake.