Re: Parallelize vs Compile
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg119359] Re: Parallelize vs Compile
- From: Oliver Ruebenkoenig <ruebenko at wolfram.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 04:30:00 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 31 May 2011, Nicholas Goble wrote: > My code seems to run much more quickly when I only use Parallelize[] as > compared to any combination of Parallelize and Compile. Even when I compile > into C using CompilationTarget->"C" and with Parallelization->True. > > I thought that compiling would always make a program in Mathematica run > faster. Why does it slow down? that is impossible to assess without seeing the code. > Is Parallelize always the most efficient? > no. > Nicholas Goble > > > >