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- Subject: [eigen] Why BTL measures CPU time?
- From: Andrea Arteaga <yo.eres@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 20:51:31 +0100
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I was looking into the BTL because I had a problem with the
benchmarks: all the multi-threaded libraries that I tested seemed to
be slower than the respective single-threaded counterparts (e.g. atlas
VS atlas-threads, openblas VS openblas-threads,...).
So I discovered that the BTL, within the Portable_Timer is measuring
the CPU time, not the wall-clock time. This means that in the
multi-threaded case all the CPU times of the threads were summed
together, resulting in no advantage of using many threads, but rather
a disadvantage because of the overhead. Nevertheless, when benchmarked
against the wall-clock time the multi-threaded implementations are
actually faster. Why is the CPU time measured?
Best regards
Andrea Arteaga