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Subject: Re: Another memory latency test

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 06:21:59 07/17/03

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I may add: If you want to try the source, I suggest to not use inlining of the
compiler. All the work is done in a very simple loop inside one function.
Inlining can make things only worse. I used cl -O2 dblat.c.

The test loop gives the following assembly:

PUBLIC  _access_loop
;       COMDAT _access_loop
_TEXT   SEGMENT
_buf$ = 8
_access_loop PROC NEAR                                  ; COMDAT
; Line 21
        mov     eax, DWORD PTR _buf$[esp-4]
        mov     ecx, 10000000                           ; 00989680H
$L770:
; Line 27
        mov     eax, DWORD PTR [eax]
; Line 38
        dec     ecx
        mov     edx, DWORD PTR [eax]
        mov     eax, DWORD PTR [edx]
        mov     edx, DWORD PTR [eax]
        mov     eax, DWORD PTR [edx]
        mov     edx, DWORD PTR [eax]
        mov     eax, DWORD PTR [edx]
        mov     edx, DWORD PTR [eax]
        mov     eax, DWORD PTR [edx]
        mov     eax, DWORD PTR [eax]
        jne     SHORT $L770
; Line 40
        ret     0
_access_loop ENDP

And with Gcc:

.globl _access_loop
_access_loop:
        pushl   %ebp
        movl    $10000000, %edx
        movl    %esp, %ebp
        movl    8(%ebp), %eax
        .p2align 4,,7
L3:
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        decl    %edx
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        movl    (%eax), %eax
        jne     L3
        popl    %ebp
        ret

Regards,
Dieter


Regards,
Dieter



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