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From: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: abush wang <abushwangs@gmail.com>,
	abushwang via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stdlib: reorganize stdlib Makefile routines by functionality
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 11:15:56 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b5dde8f-2d72-4c76-bb93-347eade87a8f@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMLoAPZ2YG3y9jdzJRwBxpMzJYV+=7LCfOPvu8Ht3zTBhP-EOQ@mail.gmail.com>



On 01/04/24 08:47, abush wang wrote:
> This is test:
> ```
> uint64_t getnsecs() {
>     uint32_t lo, hi;
>     __asm__ __volatile__ (
>         "rdtsc" : "=a"(lo), "=d"(hi)
>     );  
>     return ((uint64_t)hi << 32) | lo;
> }
> 
> int main() {
>     const int num_iterations = 1;

This low number of iteration makes the benchmark pretty much useless
on modern hardware with frequency scaling.  By raising to something
like 1000000000 I see no variation on my workstation (Ryzen 5900).

>     uint64_t start, end, total_time = 0;
> 
>     start = getnsecs();
>     for (int i = 0; i < num_iterations; i++) {
>         (void) lrand48();
>     }
>     end = getnsecs();
>     total_time += (end - start);
> 
>     printf("Average time for lrand48: %lu cycles\n", total_time / num_iterations);
>     return 0;
> }
> ```
> before:
> Average time for lrand48: 21418 cycles
> 
> after:
> Average time for lrand48: 9892 cycles

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-02 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-01 11:47 abush wang
2024-04-01 13:12 ` Florian Weimer
2024-04-01 13:17   ` H.J. Lu
2024-04-01 13:46     ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-04-02  3:54     ` abush wang
2024-04-08  2:48       ` abush wang
2024-04-02  2:17   ` abush wang
2024-04-02  2:28     ` abush wang
2024-04-02  3:13       ` H.J. Lu
2024-04-02  6:18         ` abush wang
2024-04-02 14:15 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto [this message]
2024-04-03  1:57   ` abush wang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-04-01 11:44 abushwang
2024-04-01 12:03 ` Xi Ruoyao

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