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| author | Stanislaw Halik <sthalik@misaki.pl> | 2019-03-03 21:09:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Stanislaw Halik <sthalik@misaki.pl> | 2019-03-03 21:10:13 +0100 |
| commit | f0238cfb6997c4acfc2bd200de7295f3fa36968f (patch) | |
| tree | b215183760e4f615b9c1dabc1f116383b72a1b55 /eigen/doc/TopicMultithreading.dox | |
| parent | 543edd372a5193d04b3de9f23c176ab439e51b31 (diff) | |
don't index Eigen
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diff --git a/eigen/doc/TopicMultithreading.dox b/eigen/doc/TopicMultithreading.dox deleted file mode 100644 index 47c9b26..0000000 --- a/eigen/doc/TopicMultithreading.dox +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -namespace Eigen { - -/** \page TopicMultiThreading Eigen and multi-threading - -\section TopicMultiThreading_MakingEigenMT Make Eigen run in parallel - -Some Eigen's algorithms can exploit the multiple cores present in your hardware. To this end, it is enough to enable OpenMP on your compiler, for instance: - * GCC: \c -fopenmp - * ICC: \c -openmp - * MSVC: check the respective option in the build properties. -You can control the number of thread that will be used using either the OpenMP API or Eigen's API using the following priority: -\code - OMP_NUM_THREADS=n ./my_program - omp_set_num_threads(n); - Eigen::setNbThreads(n); -\endcode -Unless setNbThreads has been called, Eigen uses the number of threads specified by OpenMP. You can restore this behavior by calling \code setNbThreads(0); \endcode -You can query the number of threads that will be used with: -\code -n = Eigen::nbThreads( ); -\endcode -You can disable Eigen's multi threading at compile time by defining the EIGEN_DONT_PARALLELIZE preprocessor token. - -Currently, the following algorithms can make use of multi-threading: - - general dense matrix - matrix products - - PartialPivLU - - row-major-sparse * dense vector/matrix products - - ConjugateGradient with \c Lower|Upper as the \c UpLo template parameter. - - BiCGSTAB with a row-major sparse matrix format. - - LeastSquaresConjugateGradient - -\section TopicMultiThreading_UsingEigenWithMT Using Eigen in a multi-threaded application - -In the case your own application is multithreaded, and multiple threads make calls to Eigen, then you have to initialize Eigen by calling the following routine \b before creating the threads: -\code -#include <Eigen/Core> - -int main(int argc, char** argv) -{ - Eigen::initParallel(); - - ... -} -\endcode - -\note With Eigen 3.3, and a fully C++11 compliant compiler (i.e., <a href="http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/storage_duration#Static_local_variables">thread-safe static local variable initialization</a>), then calling \c initParallel() is optional. - -\warning note that all functions generating random matrices are \b not re-entrant nor thread-safe. Those include DenseBase::Random(), and DenseBase::setRandom() despite a call to Eigen::initParallel(). This is because these functions are based on std::rand which is not re-entrant. For thread-safe random generator, we recommend the use of boost::random or c++11 random feature. - -In the case your application is parallelized with OpenMP, you might want to disable Eigen's own parallization as detailed in the previous section. - -*/ - -} |
