From: Kevin Atkinson <kevina@gnu.org>
To: Jerry Quinn <jlquinn@optonline.net>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Slow memcmp for aligned strings on Pentium 3
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304041007080.912-100000@kevin-pc.atkinson.dhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E191SV3-0008Ef-00@tiamat>
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Jerry Quinn wrote:
> I just tried the same benchmark on a Pentium 4 out of curiosity. Slightly
> different results:
>
> Memory compare int:
> 10000
> 130000
> Speed up: 0.076923
> Memory compare 15 bytes:
> 10000
> 370000
> Speed up: 0.027027
> Memory compare 16 bytes:
> 20000
> 330000
> Speed up: 0.060606
> Memory compare 64 bytes:
> 10000
> 1040000
> Speed up: 0.009615
> Memory compare 256 bytes:
> 20000
> 2300000
> Speed up: 0.008696
>
> Perhaps this is to be expected since the routine uses shifts.
The shift are only used in the case size is not divisible by 4. It seams
that on the Pentium 4 cmps is the way to go. You might also want to
increase the number of loop iterations to get more meaning full results
due the limited precision of clock().
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-04 17:13 Jerry Quinn
2003-04-04 17:29 ` Kevin Atkinson [this message]
2003-04-06 5:54 ` Jerry Quinn
2003-04-06 22:17 ` Kevin Atkinson
2003-04-07 17:30 ` Jerry Quinn
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2003-04-04 14:33 Bonzini
2003-04-04 13:18 Roger Sayle
2003-04-04 14:51 ` Kevin Atkinson
2003-04-04 17:08 ` Kevin Atkinson
2003-04-04 18:58 ` Marcel Cox
2003-04-04 19:27 ` Kevin Atkinson
2003-04-04 6:22 Kevin Atkinson
2003-04-04 8:52 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-04-04 15:16 ` Kevin Atkinson
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