Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 11:29:18 12/05/01
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On December 05, 2001 at 13:36:21, Ed Schröder wrote: >On December 05, 2001 at 13:04:49, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: > >>On December 05, 2001 at 12:42:07, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>On December 05, 2001 at 06:46:07, Severi Salminen wrote: >>> >>>>>>#define color(target) (((info[target])>>3)&3) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>my data.c file includes >>>>>> >>>>>>int info[64]; >>>>>>int side; >>>>>>int direction[64][64]; >>>>>>int kingsquare[2]; >>>>>>int pin[64]; >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Perhaps the data types could be a reason for some microscopic effects. If the >>>>>variable "side" is for instance of type "short", the compiler has to zero-extend >>>>>the variable to word-size before indexing (because of the array access). >>>> >>>>But as you can see the variables are all ints. So no type conversions needed. I >>>>believe there is just some stupid alignment thing happening or something and >>>>that's why the program slows down a bit. I'd use side instead of color(sq) and >>>>hopefully the speedup will show up later. >>>> >>>>Severi >>> >>> >>>You could try to decrease the >>> >>>int direction[64][64]; >>> >>>by one, thus: >>> >>>int direction[63][64]; >>> >>>The result might be the compiler doesn't have to do an expensive multiply >>>(*65) but is able to do a simple shift-left bits instruction (SHL 6) which >>>shift left the bytes 6 times, thus a multiply by 64. >> >>I do not understand. Why would a compiler want to multiply by 65 in the first >>place? Isn't 64 in both cases as determined by the second index? > >char xxx[0] defines 1 byte. >char xxx[10] defines 11 bytes. That migh be true in other languages (BASIC, Pascal) but it is certainly not true in ANSI C (which is the language that Uri was using) and I doubt that is true in any dialect of C since it is part of the core of C. In fact, C programmers are sometimes proud that char x[10] initializes 10 bytes (from index 0 to 9). see http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q6.2.html Regards, Miguel > >etc. > >Ed > > > >>Regards, >>Miguel >> >> >> >> >>> >>>Ed
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