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Subject: Re: Gerbil 64-bit Speedup

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 09:10:22 03/30/04

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On March 30, 2004 at 10:49:27, Fabien Letouzey wrote:

>On March 30, 2004 at 10:30:39, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On March 30, 2004 at 04:40:06, Fabien Letouzey wrote:
>>
>>>On March 30, 2004 at 04:25:25, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 30, 2004 at 01:35:13, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>64-bit Gerbil compiled with -O2 -Og -Ot -Oy -Oi -Ob2 -GL:
>>>>>
>>>>>1,098,625 N/sec on opening position for 30s.
>>>>>
>>>>>32-bit Gerbil compiled with -O2 -Og -Ot -Oy -Oi -Ob2 -GL:
>>>>>
>>>>>1,094,747 N/sec on opening position for 30s.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>32-bit Gerbil that comes with source:
>>>>>
>>>>>1,115,953 N/sec on opening position for 30s.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>What is 64-bit Gerbil - a re-write to 64-bit code or the same Gerbil on a 64-bit
>>>>cpu?
>>>>/Peter
>>>
>>>I think what Slater is doing is to compile source code with the same compiler in
>>>32-bit and 64-bit modes and compare the speed.  I don't think he modifies the
>>>source code in any way, so it is not a re-write.
>>>
>>>The tests are probably all made on the same 64-bit hardware.
>>>
>>>Fabien.
>>
>>Correct.
>>
>>I had planned to take the program with the slowest speedup, and try to clean it
>>up for 64-bit.  Looking like Fruit, so far!  :)
>
>Maybe it's just that Fruit is perfectly optimised for 32-bit hardware ;)

That much is obvious!

>Any clue so far, apart from the index signed-extension thing?

I am still trying to learn fruit.  It's no small program!  But yes, there are
quite a few datatypes that don't run well in 64-bit.  Such as sint8, and others.

>Fabien.



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