Runners
Runners are available as of 2.8.0.
Overview
About runners
There are several technically different ways in which you can execute your experiment. Each of these corresponds to a runner. You can select a runner from the Preferences section (Figure 1). If you experience stability issues, you can try whether selecting a different runner resolves the issues.
Figure 1. You can select a runner from the Preferences section.
Available runners
multiprocess
The multiprocess runner executes your experiment in a different process of the same application. The benefit of this approach is that your experiment can crash without bringing the user interface down with it.
inprocess
The inprocess runner executes the experiment in the same process as the user interface. The benefit of this approach is its simplicity. The downside is that the user interface may crash if the experiment crashes, and vice versa.
external
The external runner executes the experiment by launching opensesamerun as a separate application. The benefit of this approach is that your experiment can crash without bringing the user interface down with it.
