AW: Multithreaded search for large key sets

[Schaible, Marcel]

Hi,


thanks for your suggestion. Making gperf multithtreaded (please correct me 
Bruno) would be a major task.

We will discuss it.


Thanks

Marcel

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Betreff: Multithreaded search for large key sets

Hi,

I use gperf and I'm happy with the results that I get. However, perhaps due to 
algorithms or the implementation, gperf is quite slow for moderate key sets 
(5000-10000). As a results, to be usable, gperf has to be used without multiple 
iterations, otherwise, to find optional coefficients I'd need to wait minutes 
or even hours. For that reason perhaps many projects cannot even try to use 
gperf.
I noticed that gperf doesn't use all the cores when performing the search, 
probably because gperf was written before multicore CPUs were common. Can you 
please update gperf to take advantage of modern multicore CPUs?

Thanks