DistributedArrays.jl提供的DArray只适合在分布式集群上使用,因为SharedArray在共享内存上的速度比DArray快很多。在8线程的笔记本电脑上可以简单地测试它们的性能,结论是速度和内存分配都有明显差距。
~$ julia -p 8
julia> A = zeros(Float64,100,100);
julia> using SharedArrays, DistributedArrays
julia> SA = SharedArray(A);
julia> DA = distribute(A);
julia> function test(M)
for i in eachindex(M)
M[i]
end
end
test (generic function with 1 method)
julia> @time test(SA)
0.006549 seconds (9.82 k allocations: 542.996 KiB)
julia> @time test(SA)
0.000005 seconds
julia> @time test(SA)
0.000005 seconds
julia> @time test(DA)
1.912830 seconds (1.60 M allocations: 66.575 MiB, 0.36% gc time)
julia> @time test(DA)
0.627627 seconds (779.60 k allocations: 24.339 MiB, 0.94% gc time)
julia> @time test(DA)
0.621686 seconds (779.73 k allocations: 24.342 MiB, 0.78% gc time)