problem with parallel foreach

[Gerald Jansen via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Thanks Ali. I have tried putting GC.disable() in both main and 
runJob, but the timing behaviour did not change. The python 
version works in a similar fashion and also has automatic GC. I 
tend to think that is not the (biggest) problem.

The program is long and newbie-ugly ... but I could put it 
somewhere if that would help.

Gerald

On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 15:24:45 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 05/12/2015 07:59 AM, Gerald Jansen wrote:
>
> > the performance of my D version deteriorates
> > rapidly beyond a handful of jobs whereas the time for the
> Python version
> > increases linearly with the number of jobs per cpu core.
>
> It may be related to GC collections. If it hasn't been changed 
> recently, every allocation from GC triggers a collection cycle. 
> D's current GC being a stop-the-world kind, you lose all 
> benefit of parallel processing when that happens.
>
> Without seeing runJob, even arr2.dup may be having such an 
> effect on the performance.
>
> Ali