Is there any way to batch up more work to do in each block? Then your ratio of 
real work to overhead would go up.

On Apr 25, 2014, at 12:35 AM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 24, 2014, at 9:04 PM, Dave Fernandes <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> What’s the CPU utilization? Are you actually getting full use of them, or 
>> are your threads blocked waiting for something?
> 
> Fairly high — I think 175% or so (out of 200% possible). The problem is that 
> a large fraction of that is taken up with busywork. In the CPU profile list 
> from Instruments, the top 25 or so stack frames are all system 
> infrastructure; you have to read down quite a ways to find any application 
> code at all.
> 
> —Jens

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