Why is PLINQ slower than LINQ for this code?
- by Rob Packwood
First off, I am running this on a dual core 2.66Ghz processor machine. I am not sure if I have the .AsParallel() call in the correct spot. I tried it directly on the range variable too and that was still slower. I don't understand why...
Here are my results:
Process non-parallel 1000 took 146 milliseconds
Process parallel 1000 took 156 milliseconds
Process non-parallel 5000 took 5187 milliseconds
Process parallel 5000 took 5300 milliseconds
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
namespace DemoConsoleApp
{
internal class Program
{
private static void Main()
{
ReportOnTimedProcess(
() => GetIntegerCombinations(),
"non-parallel 1000");
ReportOnTimedProcess(
() => GetIntegerCombinations(runAsParallel: true),
"parallel 1000");
ReportOnTimedProcess(
() => GetIntegerCombinations(5000),
"non-parallel 5000");
ReportOnTimedProcess(
() => GetIntegerCombinations(5000, true),
"parallel 5000");
Console.Read();
}
private static List<Tuple<int, int>> GetIntegerCombinations(
int iterationCount = 1000, bool runAsParallel = false)
{
IEnumerable<int> range = Enumerable.Range(1, iterationCount);
IEnumerable<Tuple<int, int>> integerCombinations =
from x in range
from y in range
select new Tuple<int, int>(x, y);
return runAsParallel
? integerCombinations.AsParallel().ToList()
: integerCombinations.ToList();
}
private static void ReportOnTimedProcess(
Action process, string processName)
{
var stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
stopwatch.Start();
process();
stopwatch.Stop();
Console.WriteLine("Process {0} took {1} milliseconds",
processName, stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds);
}
}
}
