Pause(1) in masterParallel

Estimation ML/Bayesian estimation
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I noticed that the file masterParallel (used, in my case for parallel estimation of a DSGE model), has a ‘pause(1)’ in line 668 that seems to add considerable time to the execution of the code, even if the MH draws are loaded. Is there a strong need for this pause?

I’ve run my code with the pause set to 0.25 and 0 and the execution and results are unaffected.

Thanks
W

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This is a safety measure to make sure that execution does not crash due to jobs not being finished. If it works without any pause, you can remove it.

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Thought as much, thanks!