General strategies on producer/ consumer loop sampling, when consumer loop controls producer loop

[crossrulz]

Here is the code simplified some and turned into a pipeline.

[DG76]

What can I say crossrulz, the application has extremely demanding requirements!

The suggestion about using a pipeline architecture to take advantage of multiple processors certainly seems a good one at first glance. Focussing on performance only, when I tried to decouple the processing from the sampling in the producer/ consumer architecture it didn't improve matters, actually that was slightly worse, so I went back to my original single loop. I will try your suggestion next and see if that helps. Thanks.