From b99a9cb3f540493b4ca64a86a05e4ab310476037 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NunoSempere Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 13:01:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] readme tweak --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 51acce3..177102c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -334,6 +334,8 @@ But for more complicated use cases, my recommendation would be to not use parall - If you run the `sampler_parallel` function on two different inputs, their outputs will be correlated. E.g., if you run two lognormals, indices which have higher samples in one will tend to have higher samples in the other one. Why? - For a small amount of samples, if you run the `sampler_parallel` function, you will get better spread out random numbers than if you run things serially. Why? +That said, I found adding parallelism to be an interesting an engaging task. Most recently, I even optimized the code to ensure that two threads weren't accessing the same cache line at the same time, and it was very satisfying to see a 30% improvement as a result. + #### Extra: Algebraic manipulations `squiggle_more.c` has some functions to do some simple algebra manipulations: sums of normals and products of lognormals. You can see some example usage [here](examples/more/07_algebra/example.c) and [here](examples/more/08_algebra_and_conversion/example.c).