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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe. Having no experience whatsoever in vectorization, I'm looking into
multithreading. Anyway, I believe one doesn't exclude the other.


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 21/01/14 18:51, Carl Poirier kirjoitti:
> > There are some things in the code that don't like being multithreaded.
> If I
> > parallelize the for loop in RN_DATA::Recalculate( int aNet ), I get a
> > segfault.
>
> It probably makes more sense to vectorize the loop than making it
> multi-threaded. Then you don't need tricky thread handling, but just
> have to make the loop handle data in, say four int32 chunks. Naturally
> that needs some more trickery to handle the remainder if division by
> four doesn't go even.
>
> -Vesa
>
>
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