Re: [boost] very poor thread performance

From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-14 15:52:22

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On Wednesday 14 May 2008 15:31 pm, James Sutherland wrote:
> I have been testing thread performance on Linux and Mac.  My Linux
> system has two dual-core processors and my Mac has one dual-core
> processor.  Both are intel chips.
>
> For the code snippet given below, the execution time should ideally
> decrease as the number of threads increases.  However, the opposite
> trend is observed.  For example, using -O3 flags on my Linux desktop
> produces the following timings:
> 1 Thread: 0.66 sec
> 2 Threads: 0.9 sec
> 3 Threads: 1.2 sec
> 4 Threads: 1.4 sec
>
> I do not have a lot of experience with threads, and was wondering if
> this result surprises anyone?

If you print a debug message next to your 

threads.create_thread();

call, you'll see that you are creating more threads than you think you are.

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Frank
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