I wrote this code in purpose to test multi and single threading speeds. Thanks for all the feedback! I rewrote most of it based on the great comments I received. This now functions properly (maybe has a bug here or there), tests multi threads first, and takes an average to find a more accurate speed: (Scroll to bottom for cont.)
Main method Class
using System;
namespace SingleAndMultiThreading
{
internal class Threads
{
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
long numOfObjCreated;
int numberOfTests;
while (true)
{
try
{
Console.Write("Number of objects to create: ");
numOfObjCreated = Convert.ToInt64(Console.ReadLine());
break;
}
catch (Exception)
{
Console.WriteLine("Invalid input.");
}
}
while (true)
{
try
{
Console.Write("Number of tests to run: ");
numberOfTests = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
break;
}
catch (Exception)
{
Console.WriteLine("Invalid input.");
}
}
CalculateResults(numOfObjCreated, numberOfTests);
Console.ReadKey();
}
private static void CalculateResults(long numOfObjCreated, int numberOfTests)
{
double totalPercentages = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < numberOfTests; i++)
{
totalPercentages += CompleteTests(numOfObjCreated);
}
var accuracy = totalPercentages / numberOfTests;
if ((int)accuracy == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("\nIn this case, neither single threading or multithreading is faster.\n" +
"They both run equally well under these conditions.\n");
return;
}
if (accuracy < 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("\nIn this case with {0} objects being created, single threading is faster!\n",
string.Format("{0:#,###0}", numOfObjCreated));
return;
}
Console.WriteLine("\nFrom {0} test(s), {1}% was the average percentage of increased speed in multithreading.\n",
string.Format("{0:#,###0}", numberOfTests), string.Format("{0:#,###0}", accuracy));
}
private static double CompleteTests(long numOfObjCreated)
{
Console.WriteLine("Computing...");
var numOfCores = Environment.ProcessorCount;
var timeForMultiThread = MultiThread.Run(numOfObjCreated, numOfCores);
var timeForSingleThread = SingleThread.Run(numOfObjCreated);
var percentFaster = ((timeForSingleThread / timeForMultiThread) * 100) - 100;
//note: .NET does its part in assigning a certian thread to its own core
Console.WriteLine("Using all {0} cores, creating {1} objects is {2}% faster.",
numOfCores, string.Format("{0:#,###0}", numOfObjCreated), string.Format("{0:#,###0}", percentFaster));
return percentFaster;
}
}
}
Single Threading Class
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace SingleAndMultiThreading
{
internal class SingleThread
{
public static double Run(long numOfObjCreated)
{
var watch = new Stopwatch();
watch.Start();
for (long i = 0; i < numOfObjCreated; i++)
{
new object();
}
watch.Stop();
var totalTime = watch.ElapsedTicks;
Console.WriteLine("The time to create {0} objects with 1 thread is: {1} ticks.",
string.Format("{0:#,###0}", numOfObjCreated), string.Format("{0:#,###0}", totalTime));
return totalTime;
}
}
}
Multi Threading Class
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;
namespace SingleAndMultiThreading
{
internal class MultiThread
{
public static double Run(long numOfObjCreated, int numOfCores)
{
var watch = new Stopwatch();
var workerObject = new Worker(numOfObjCreated / numOfCores);
var listOfThreads = new List<Thread>();
for (long k = 0; k < numOfCores; k++)
{
var workerThread = new Thread(workerObject.DoWork);
listOfThreads.Add(workerThread);
}
watch.Start();
foreach (var thread in listOfThreads)
{
thread.Start();
}
byte countOfCompletedThreads = 0;
while (true)
{
foreach (var thread in listOfThreads)
if (!thread.IsAlive)
countOfCompletedThreads++;
if (countOfCompletedThreads == numOfCores)
break;
countOfCompletedThreads = 0;
}
watch.Stop();
var totalTime = watch.ElapsedTicks;
Console.WriteLine("The time to create {0} objects utilizing all {1} cores is: {2} ticks.",
string.Format("{0:#,###0}", numOfObjCreated), numOfCores, string.Format("{0:#,###0}", totalTime));
return totalTime;
}
}
}
Worker Class
namespace SingleAndMultiThreading
{
public class Worker
{
private readonly long _numOfObjToCreate;
public bool IsDone;
public Worker(long numOfObjToCreate)
{
_numOfObjToCreate = numOfObjToCreate;
}
public void DoWork()
{
for (long i = 0; i < _numOfObjToCreate; i++)
{
new object();
}
IsDone = true;
}
}
}
The output of this code is a bit too long to post (I urge you to copy and paste into your own IDE, its really fascinating). I guess the accepted answer that this doesn't give the same result per every test is due to CPU scheduling, other or minor issues like ASLR and such. More than one thing is happening aside from visual studio running this program, and priorities differently. Also thank you for pointing out that running multi threading first helps because of the already-done memory allocation!
Another thing to point out, I found this while running:
The spikes are when the process of multi threading takes place.