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
1182.63 ms
total CPU used
17425.66 ms
speedup
14.73×
vs serial
efficiency
86.6%
of 17× ideal
stream spawn ms spawned@ work start@ work end@ work ms reap wait ms
0 (main) 0 63.91 63.92 1117.29 1053.37 0
1 2.09 2.1 15.86 1005.61 989.75 0.15
2 1.426 3.55 22.77 1158.69 1135.92 41.52
3 1.541 5.11 43.4 1116.62 1073.22 0.21
4 1.476 6.61 57.02 1177.08 1120.06 59.91
5 1.533 8.16 38.77 1125.87 1087.1 23.1
6 1.695 9.87 90.42 1010.36 919.94 22.96
7 1.501 11.39 65.22 1160.46 1095.24 46.73
8 1.929 13.34 93.71 1145.36 1051.65 28.16
9 1.612 14.98 68.84 1146.45 1077.61 31.03
10 1.534 16.53 50.67 1040.62 989.95 22.98
11 11.565 28.11 79.46 975.79 896.33 23
12 2.031 30.16 98.79 1179.57 1080.78 62.78
13 6.911 37.09 92.12 996.14 904.02 23.01
14 1.582 38.69 102.95 1113.09 1010.14 23.04
15 1.549 40.25 85.17 1067.11 981.94 23.05
16 23.641 63.91 120.81 1079.45 958.64 23.07
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.