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. 2012 Dec 20;4:38. doi: 10.1186/1758-2946-4-38

Table 3.

Performance of SMILES parsing

Run
Singlethreaded
Multithreaded
Multithreaded
      (after profiling)
1
17’149
10’295
7608
2
15’659
7123
5488
3
15’663
7248
5433
4
15’880
7508
5425
5
15’809
7669
5534
6
15’720
7197
5471
7
15’665
7174
5448
8
15’390
7296
5513
9
15’423
7687
5696
10
15’523
7564
5491
average 15’788 7676 5711

Time (in milliseconds) taken to parse part of the ZINC database containing about 350’000 structures on a quadcore laptop. The multi-threaded runs ran on all four cores without further optimization of Scala’s parallel collections settings.