use of parallel computing

[ecmerkle]

For mac & linux users, mclapply() is used once or twice during post-estimation computations (like in postpred()). Give the user an option to turn off parallelization in case there is some problem with parallelization (use lapply() instead).

[coatless]

@ecmerkle consider switching the parallelization control over to future using multiprocess plan architecture. If parallelization isn't possible, future will automatically drop down to sequential evaluation.

[ecmerkle]

Thanks, will check this out. This looks like it could also provide a solution for windows users, who currently do not have a parallelization option for some of the blavaan computations.

[seonghobae]

Just switch to future.apply::future_lapply() and just set future::plan() outside of blavaan library. That’s useful to who want to use MPI or HPC computing with blavaan.