It runs more than twice as slowly using 8 core than using a single core
in inverting large matrix. Tested on 8 core Windows XP 64 machine.
> n = 1000
> n.simu = 100
> func1 = function()
+ {
+ x = rnorm(n*n)
+ dim(x)=c(n,n)
+ y = solve(x)
+ }
>
> setMKLthreads(1)
> system.time(for(i in 1:n.simu) func1())
user system elapsed
69.48 2.42 71.91
>
> setMKLthreads(8)
> system.time(for(i in 1:n.simu) func1())
user system elapsed
179.06 17.90 41.70
Jason Liao
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