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Subject: Re: Two memory-related questions

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 07:07:18 04/16/02

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On April 16, 2002 at 09:18:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On April 16, 2002 at 09:09:32, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On April 16, 2002 at 08:39:32, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>1) Would there be any advantage to my hash entries being 16 bytes instead of 14
>>>bytes? I'm thinking of possible alignment issues. The fact that I can have more
>>>if they're only 14 bytes is irrelevant for me.
>>
>>Add 2 dummy bytes to your structure and see if it's faster :)
>
>I could do that, but that will only give me information about my own
>hardware, in this case, an Athlon XP1800 with SDR memory.
>
>There could be significant differences on other CPU's, and I'd like
>to know the issues involved.

P4 is dead slow with random memory acces anyway, so if there is an improvement
it will be on the Athlon.

Tony

>
>--
>GCP



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