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Subject: Re: profiling problem

Author: José Carlos

Date: 09:16:54 02/08/02

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On February 08, 2002 at 12:08:14, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>Timing is a complex issue.
>>Believe the profiler.
>
>I disagree, _don't_ believe the profiler, believe in real life results. If your
>program runs faster on the second alternative, then it is faster. There are som
>many stupid things that affect the final speed of a program that nowadays I only
>believe my own judgement. If I make a modification which _should_ be faster and
>my program runs slower (and the profiler shows whatever) I will use the
>modification and hopefully later on when I modify the code more, these
>misalignement/scheduling/pipeing/zipping/zapping problems will fade away...
>
>Severi

  If you profile with _real_ situations (I mean, a variety of positions) and for
a long time (I mean, hours), I bet the profiler will do a very good job.

  José C.



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