Automatic parallelization in 4.3?

[Finch 888]

>From: Tobias Burnus <burnus@net-b.de>
>(I don't know how well -ftree-parallelize-loops will work, but the
>autoparallelization in ifort made one of my programs actually slightly
>slower (on a dual-core AMD) than a single process [I don't know how
>typical this is]. However, it is nice that GCC will have it.)
>
>Tobias

Don't expect too much on auto-parallelizer. Parallel code does not guarantee 
a faster solution unless the parallel code is well programmed in efficient 
parallel algorithm. There is no surprise that multi-threaded application is 
slower than a sequential version.

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