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Subject: Re: Question for the Crafty/Compiler experts

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 13:20:48 02/15/04

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On February 15, 2004 at 16:10:55, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 15, 2004 at 15:45:02, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>My setup:
>>
>>AMD FX 51
>>Windows 2003 Enterprise (64 bit)
>>Intel 8.0 Compiler
>>
>>
>>Why would compiling Crafty 19.10 be 15% slower when defining /DVC_INLINE_ASM &
>>/DUSE_ASSEMBLY?
>>
>>Has anyone else ever seen that?
>
>It may mean that the compiler generated better assembly than you did.
>
>It may also mean that you pulled in the wrong assembly.  Old x86 assembly will
>run on the AMD opteron type systems.  It is the new stuff that will really be
>snappy.

ICC doesn't seem to like Bob's assembly code to start off with.


vcinline.h(28): warning #1011: missing return statement at end of non-void funct
ion "PopCnt"
  }
  ^

vcinline.h(41): warning #1011: missing return statement at end of non-void funct
ion "FirstOne"
  }
  ^

vcinline.h(54): warning #1011: missing return statement at end of non-void funct
ion "LastOne"
  }
  ^

Here is the result using /DVC_INLINE_ASM & /DUSE_ASSEMBLY:

Total nodes: 89942714
Raw nodes per second: 1577942
Total elapsed time: 57
SMP time-to-ply measurement: 11.228070

Here is the result without it:

Total nodes: 89942714
Raw nodes per second: 1635322
Total elapsed time: 55
SMP time-to-ply measurement: 11.636364


Doing a few other things, I've got it from 15% to 3%.  But still slower.



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