It is easy enough to measure message rate with and without an array of status objects to understand this quantitatively.
Jeff
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 6:40 AM, William Gropp <
wgropp@illinois.edu> wrote:
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> This was the motivation, more than avoiding declaring a variable that was never read in the user’s program. There was evidence for this from Intel in the early ‘90s, though I don’t know if anyone has looked into it recently.
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> Bill
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> William Gropp
> Director, Parallel Computing Institute
> Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science
> Chief Scientist, NCSA
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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> On May 26, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Jeff Hammond <
jeff.science@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is it correct to assume that it is cheaper to check for MPI_STATUS_IGNORE and MPI_STATUSES_IGNORE than to fill in the status object, in the case where the user does not need the status?
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> Thanks,
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> Jeff
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