PATIENT and EXHAUSTIVE plans v slow compared to MEASURE

These timings are surprising to me.

It seems that MEASURE is using the fastest plan, but the other flags are not. The others don't know about threads, judging by cpu usage.

Is this expected, or am I not using this correctly?

Also PATIENT and EXHAUSTIVE are not saving on allocations?

using FFTW, BenchmarkTools
N = 512
A = randn(ComplexF64,N,N)
B = copy(A)

## measure
FFTW.forget_wisdom()
FFTW.set_num_threads(8)

P = plan_fft(A,flags=FFTW.MEASURE);
@btime $P*$A;
  1.409 ms (138 allocations: 4.01 MiB)

P! = plan_fft!(A,flags=FFTW.MEASURE);
@btime $P!*$B setup=(B .= A);
  1.401 ms (137 allocations: 9.56 KiB)

## patient
FFTW.forget_wisdom()
FFTW.set_num_threads(8)

P = plan_fft(A,flags=FFTW.PATIENT);
@btime $P*$A;
  458.462 ms (113592 allocations: 11.24 MiB)

P! = plan_fft!(A,flags=FFTW.PATIENT);
@btime $P!*$B setup=(B .= A);
  914.090 ms (226997 allocations: 14.46 MiB)


## exhaustive
FFTW.forget_wisdom()
FFTW.set_num_threads(8)

P = plan_fft(A,flags=FFTW.EXHAUSTIVE);
@btime $P*$A;
500.417 ms (124745 allocations: 11.94 MiB)

P! = plan_fft!(A,flags=FFTW.EXHAUSTIVE);
@btime $P!*$B setup=(B .= A);
  919.095 ms (227010 allocations: 14.46 MiB)

This is on

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.8.0-beta3
Commit 3e092a2521 (2022-03-29 15:42 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (arm64-apple-darwin21.3.0)
  CPU: 10 × Apple M1 Max
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-13.0.1 (ORCJIT, apple-m1)
  Threads: 8 on 8 virtual cores
Environment:
  JULIA_PKG_DEVDIR = /Users/abradley/Dropbox/Julia/Dev
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 8

JuliaMath / FFTW.jl

PATIENT and EXHAUSTIVE plans v slow compared to MEASURE #239