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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