Hi! I'm trying to parallelize a convolution function in C. Here's the original function which convolves two arrays of 64-bit floats:

void convolve(const Float64 *in1,
              UInt32 in1Len,
              const Float64 *in2,
              UInt32 in2Len,
              Float64 *results)
{
    UInt32 i, j;

    for (i = 0; i < in1Len; i++) {
        for (j = 0; j < in2Len; j++) {
            results[i+j] += in1[i] * in2[j];
        }
    }
}

In order to allow for concurrency (without semaphores), I created a function that computes the result for a particular position in the results array:

void convolveHelper(const Float64 *in1,
                    UInt32 in1Len,
                    const Float64 *in2,
                    UInt32 in2Len,
                    Float64 *result,
                    UInt32 outPosition)
{
    UInt32 i, j;

    for (i = 0; i < in1Len; i++) {
        if (i > outPosition)
            break;
        j = outPosition - i;
        if (j >= in2Len)
            continue;
        *result += in1[i] * in2[j];
    }
}

The problem is, using convolveHelper slows down the code about 3.5 times (when running on a single thread).

Any ideas on how I can speed-up convolveHelper, while maintaining thread safety?