Re: [Algorithms] General purpose task parallel threading approach

[Jon W. <jw...@gm...>]

asy...@gm... wrote:
> >Have you measured it?
> I composed a quick sample - 2 threads which ping pong each other via 2 
> events (1 core utilized in total), each thread did 10 million 
> iterations of passing execution to another thread (20 million 
> execution passes in total), and did the same test with tasks.

I don't think that's a representative measurement, though, because it is 
the absolute best case: both contexts are in L1, on the same core. For 
any kind of real workload with blocking waits, that will not be the 
case. I believe the Windows kernel version will not slow down much in 
that case, but the asynclib version will. Of course, if your workload is 
actually highly cached and interdependent, then this measurement may be 
more relevant.

Sincerely,

jw