Thread Pool Benchmark

A C++ Thread Pool Colosseum,
where various C++ thread pool implementations fight for glory and fortune.

Install

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Red-Portal/thread-pool-benchmark.git
cmake -G "<Generator>"
make -j4

Gladiators

• C++11 Threads
  
• Sean Parent's implementation as suggested in Boostcon
• Grand Central Dispatch, Apple
• Thread Building Blocks, Intel
• ThreadPool, progschj
• HPX, STEllAR-GROUP To be added

Fight Events

• 1024 * 1024 Matrix Multiplication
  
• 2048 * 2048 Fluid Solver
  

Example Results

Intel Core i7-7700HQ, Manjaro Linux, clang 6.0.0

matrix multiplication	forking	joining	total
C++ thread	473.692266ms	14.826739ms	488.519005ms
Sean Parent Naive	0.312164ms	423.402574ms	423.714738ms
Sean Parent Multiqueue	0.314355ms	472.653375ms	472.967730ms
Sean Parent Work Stealing	0.292475ms	443.798525ms	444.091000ms
progschj's ThreadPool	0.286827ms	562.374141ms	562.660968ms
Grand Central Dispatch	0.374894ms	423.493407ms	423.868301ms
Thread Building Blocks	1.042765ms	488.946873ms	489.989638ms

fluid solver	forking	joining	total
C++ thread	1252.285177ms	375.896608ms	1628.181785ms
Sean Parent Naive	19.664301ms	1149.353465ms	1169.017766ms
Sean Parent Multiqueue	6.706725ms	1162.610971ms	1169.317696ms
Sean Parent Work Stealing	9.154444ms	1149.240601ms	1158.395045ms
progschj's ThreadPool	7.787490ms	1559.932310ms	1567.719800ms
Grand Central Dispatch	9.418396ms	1161.239495ms	1170.657891ms
Thread Building Blocks	10.892387ms	1224.662278ms	1235.554665ms

Contributions

All contributions are welcome,
including new types of benchmark problems and publicly available thread pool implementations

LICENSE

thread-pool-benchmark, a C++ Thread Pool Colosseum
Copyright (C) 2018  Red-Portal

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