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Chris@42 79 <h3 class="section">5.3 How Many Threads to Use?</h3>
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Chris@42 82 <p>There is a fair amount of overhead involved in synchronizing threads,
Chris@42 83 so the optimal number of threads to use depends upon the size of the
Chris@42 84 transform as well as on the number of processors you have.
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Chris@42 86 <p>As a general rule, you don&rsquo;t want to use more threads than you have
Chris@42 87 processors. (Using more threads will work, but there will be extra
Chris@42 88 overhead with no benefit.) In fact, if the problem size is too small,
Chris@42 89 you may want to use fewer threads than you have processors.
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