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
1179.75 ms
total CPU used
17300.86 ms
speedup
14.66×
vs serial
efficiency
86.2%
of 17× ideal
stream spawn ms spawned@ work start@ work end@ work ms reap wait ms
0 (main) 0 80.72 80.72 1134.03 1053.31 0
1 2.002 2.01 14.66 1100.27 1085.61 0.15
2 1.357 3.38 26.51 1049.32 1022.81 0.21
3 1.423 4.82 20.17 983.28 963.11 0.22
4 1.495 6.34 29.23 1132.09 1102.86 0.23
5 4.073 10.43 40.25 1080.84 1040.59 6.26
6 1.387 11.83 54.88 863.11 808.23 6.29
7 8.49 20.33 61.43 1085.43 1024 6.31
8 1.594 21.94 64.48 1000.88 936.4 6.32
9 7.147 29.1 67.45 1171.36 1103.91 37.5
10 1.511 30.62 75.52 1151.8 1076.28 17.86
11 16.03 46.67 87.71 1176.59 1088.88 44.36
12 1.741 48.42 78.78 990.55 911.77 6.33
13 1.451 49.89 134.54 1175.62 1041.08 42.07
14 22.922 72.82 126.5 1166.67 1040.17 37.42
15 1.551 74.4 143.09 1139.99 996.9 6.36
16 6.294 80.7 133.52 1138.47 1004.95 8.97
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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.