Improvement in CIlib performance
When using the simulator, the current manner in which CIlib’s internal threading works could result in simulations actually slowing down.
This has never really been an issue in the past. Lately, however, we are seeing that it is becoming something which is more and more important. The generic nature of CIlib is a great benefit to all, but with such a generic nature, it often means that we need to extra careful with regards to performance.
In the past that was something that we didn’t really focus on, but we have spent some time lately making sure that the performance is better. To that end, the latest changes are looking very promising. There is currently some internal testing going on, with the aim to include these new performance changes in the 0.7.4 release. There is, however, something to note regarding these changes: Your XML specifications will need to be adapted slightly to cater for the rearrangement of logic.
These specification changes do not impact the algorithm or problem definitions at all, however, some changes are required on the measurement and simulation tags. More details will be provided once the API is a little more stable. For the meantime, if you have the itch to have a look, feel free to get a clone of the repository and checkout the pu branch.
Feedback is always welcome 