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Subject: Re: copy cost

Author: Johan de Koning

Date: 01:21:28 08/23/03

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On August 23, 2003 at 03:45:09, Johan de Koning wrote:

> ... 1 extra line in main() can
>easily change the runtime by 1 or 2% (for reasons I haven't fathomed yet).

I mean: I do understand it depends on code alignment.
I can imagine the instruction pipeline feeds at very high speed from an "open"
cache line. I can also imagine it is rather complicated to have more than 1
cache line "open". But I can't imagine why I get random results.

/**/ for( i = 0; i < top; i++ ) sum += i;
;;;; more: add, inc, cmp, jl more

This loop usually executes in 2 cycles. But depending on the alignment I get
somtimes 2.667 or 4 or 4.5 cycles. Isn't that weird?!

... Johan



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