extract_fa: Add parallel processing of partitions #5373
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This PR implements parallelized partition finding in the
extract_fa
step. We have tested the speedup on proprietary designs that we can't share, and found great improvements. Partition finding needs to only read from the global state, and thus requires little synchronization. We've tested parallelization on later loops, but found no improvements there due to frequent writes.The run times of the
extract_fa
step compared to main (runs were performed on 8 cores):