Parallel computing `@parallel`

New to Julia
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Hi,
I am relatvely new to Julia and I am having some weird issue when trying to parallelize.
I use the @parallel with Shared Arrays approach (but I have the same issue when I use pmap ).
So, I have something like this:

addprocs(7)
A=SharedArray{Float64}(a_size,b_size,c_size)
toler=1e-3
maxit=1000
 while (metric1>toler) && (iter1<maxit)
`@inbounds` `@sync` `@parallel`  for i in 1:c_size
 A[:,:,i]=compute_A(fs,A0[:,:,i],i)
end
A_new=sdata(A)
metric1=maximum(abs.((A_new-A0)))
A0=copy(A_new)
iter1=iter1+1
println("$(iter1)  $(metric1)")
end

where the inputs of the function “compute_A” are:
-fs is a “DataType” defined by me
-A0 is an array
-i is the index I m looping over (dimension c_size)

So, it seems to be working fine when I compute it like this.
The problem is that when I wrap this up in a function
like:

addprocs(7)
myfunction(fs::DataType,  toler::Float64, maxit::Int)
 A=SharedArray{Float64}(a_size,b_size,c_size)
 
  while (metric1>toler) && (iter1<maxit)
 `@inbounds` `@sync` `@parallel`  for i in 1:c_size
  A[:,:,i]=compute_A(fs,A0[:,:,i],i)
 end
 A_new=sdata(A)
 metric1=maximum(abs.((A_new-A0)))
 A0=copy(A_new)
 iter1=iter1+1
 println("$(iter1)  $(metric1)")
 end

end

This: wrap(fs, 1e-3, 1000)

runs WAY SLOWER than the other one (like 6 vs 600 seconds). It seems extremely weird and
I don’t understand what I am doing wrong but there is definitely something I am missing. So I was hoping I could get some help here. Thanks a lot for your time and help.

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Welcome @Federica_D! I can’t help you with your problem but please quote code with backticks: in-line with one `, like e.g. `@parallel`, and whole blocks with ```, eg.:

```
A=SharedArray{Float64}(a_size,b_size,c_size)
toler=1e-3
...
```

In particular the @something can ping users unfortunate enough to have a username which is also a macro.