CPU scaling benchmark

workers
1 +1 main
iters total
500M
250000000/stream
elapsed
2189.86 ms
total CPU used
4330.86 ms
speedup
1.98×
vs serial
efficiency
99%
of 2× ideal
stream spawn ms spawned@ work start@ work end@ work ms reap wait ms
0 (main) 0 1.97 1.98 2161.64 2159.66 0
1 1.933 1.95 15.93 2187.13 2171.2 25.62
main
w1
    fork+handshake      CPU work      parent reap wait
what this measures
Each stream runs a tight integer LCG loop — working set is one CPU register, no memory access, no shared data. Speedup = sum(stream CPU time) / wall-clock elapsed. Efficiency = speedup / (workers+1). 100% efficiency means perfect linear scaling; less than 100% is the cost of serial fork setup, reap tail, SMT/core contention.