octree force walk is not actually parallelizable???

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Fast N-body gravitational force and potential in Python

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octree force walk is not actually parallelizable??? #7

Closed agurvich closed 3 years ago

agurvich commented 3 years ago

CPU usage is consistent with threads being launched and doing work but timing is 2x worse when you use GetAccelParallel from pykdgrav.pykdgrav.octree

mikegrudic commented 3 years ago

parallel scaling looks dece now