Parallelization is always limited by the overhead for communication ...

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The time for mce_map below also includes the time for data exchanges between the manager and worker processes.

Please try 

my @squared_big_list = mce_map_s { $_ * $_ } 1,10000000;

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Even faster is mce_map_s; useful when input data is a range of numbers. Workers generate sequences mathematically among themselves without any interaction from the manager process.

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update

to elaborate more on what AnoMonk said here:

$_ * $_ is so fast that even a slight communication overhead counts. The more complex the calculation, the less significant will the communication become.

The relation matters.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re: I thought MCE::Map is faster than usual map. What am I missing? (updated) by LanX
in thread I thought MCE::Map is faster than usual map. What am I missing? by Anonymous Monk

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