On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > Since, on my "Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6400 @ 2.00 GHz", > > 6!:2 '(i.1e6)+i.1e6' > 0.016344815 > > it's unclear even this would benefit sufficiently from parallel execution to > make it worthwhile.
Actually, I think this would be a clear example of a case where the overhead of parallel execution would slow down the calculation on a multi-core machine. The overhead of memory management would be far greater than the calculation overhead, here. Addition is essentially free on a modern CPU (because you have the addition hardware sitting there unused when you are just moving data). -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
