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On 12/26/2012 10:57 PM, charleshixsn@earthlink.net wrote:
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> IIUC, there shouldn't be more than about twice as many tasks as cores.  Is this about right?

Hardly. 2x#processors generally gives you the best speedup compared to a single 
task when parallelizing algorithms such as matrix multiplication or quick sort, 
but in general you should have a task per active entity in your problem domain.

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Jeff Carter
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