Load skims into shared memory to be accessed by later models #67
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Skims are loaded as a multiprocessing.shared_memory.SharedMemory buffer. Will only load skims from OMX if buffer does not already exist in shared memory. When used with an external script to hold onto shared memory, this allows skims to be kept in memory between models.
An additional improvement could be to add a GUID to the shared memory name as a failsafe to ensure the shared memory buffer is only usable by the current run. This GUID could potentially be set in network_los.yaml.
Functionality is currently disabled when running single-processed due to a crash that I am still investigating. This does mean that running a single-processed model after a multi-processed model will create two copies of the skims in memory, so ideally multiprocessing should be used either for all models or no models in a given run.