From e880dc71983b5633f6c2fb7fb25bc5b82f6d231a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: emilyhunt <emily.hunt.physics@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:48:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] New config setting for whether or not to choose the next task
 randomly (should help first-fit packing to be more efficient).

---
 _sphandler.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/_sphandler.py b/_sphandler.py
index d875a73..ca772c8 100644
--- a/_sphandler.py
+++ b/_sphandler.py
@@ -338,9 +338,8 @@ class SubprocessHandler:
                 break
 
             else:
-                # If we're yet to do a fit then we pick a task at random; otherwise, we pick the first available
-                # valid task.
-                if self._have_done_a_fit is False:
+                # Pick a task at random from everything we could try!
+                if self._have_done_a_fit is False or self.config['random_task_order']:
                     task_index = valid_tasks[valid_tasks].sample().index[0]
                 else:
                     task_index = valid_tasks.idxmax()
-- 
2.54.0