CPU scaling benchmark

W=0 W=1 W=2 W=3 W=4 W=6 W=8 W=9 W=10 W=12 W=16 iters: 100M 500M 1B 2B
workers
16 +1 main
iters total
500M
29411764/stream
elapsed
1214.45 ms
total CPU used
18095.68 ms
speedup
14.9×
vs serial
efficiency
87.6%
of 17× ideal
stream spawn ms spawned@ work start@ work end@ work ms reap wait ms
0 (main) 0 76.85 76.86 1139.03 1062.17 0
1 1.906 1.92 17.33 1091.15 1073.82 0.19
2 1.553 3.5 22.22 1089.82 1067.6 0.24
3 1.527 5.05 19.5 1117.52 1098.02 0.26
4 2.759 7.82 29.66 1168.59 1138.93 39.44
5 2.664 10.5 42.14 1130.84 1088.7 0.27
6 8.421 18.94 45.41 1048.76 1003.35 39.33
7 1.764 20.73 60.93 1154.22 1093.29 39.45
8 11.781 32.53 82.16 1202.17 1120.01 63.23
9 2.028 34.58 92.13 1128.9 1036.77 39.35
10 1.675 36.27 100.24 1186.45 1086.21 47.54
11 10.406 46.7 96.14 1193.04 1096.9 58.68
12 2.22 48.93 97.45 1113.95 1016.5 39.37
13 1.761 50.71 112.19 1151.63 1039.44 39.46
14 21.73 72.47 152.12 1211.39 1059.27 72.47
15 2.295 74.79 165.83 1198.45 1032.62 59.57
16 2.021 76.83 142.9 1124.98 982.08 39.38
main
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    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.