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why dose the efficiency decrease when many allocatable arrays are declared in modules?

Jinbin
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I wrote two different codes doing the same thing. In the older version, I only declared some variables but no arrays in modules. I used openmp to  parallelize it. In this case, the code works well and is successfully accelerated. However, the new version code cannot be accelerated. In this version, I declared some allocatable arrays, which are only assigned before I run any parallelized codes, in modules.  In the new version, the performance is lower then the single thread case after parallelized. Should I avoid to use allocatable arrays in module? Or, there are some thing should be set such as environment variables.

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jimdempseyatthecove
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Something else is going on. Please use VTune on both versions of the code and look for the overhead (and lack of threading).

Jim Dempsey

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