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Subject: Re: It gets slower

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 06:14:25 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 07:55:17, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 06:05:04, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>So using unsigned 32-bit would be a good idea, right?
>
>Apparently not. I tried replacing int with unsigned int in
>Deep Sjeng's movegen and it got slower (using MSVC for AMD64)!
>
>--
>GCP

hmm, interesting. That contradicts the statement from amd's optimization guide.
Maybe ms did something in their code generator to make unsigned even slower ;-)

I would expect something like this:

signed int

 int idx = ...;
 int elem = someArray[idx];

 movsx  rax, [idx]                ; sign extension 32->64 bit
 mov    edx, [someArray + 4*rax]  ; array access

versus unsigned int

 unsigned int idx = ...;
 int elem = someArray[idx];

 mov    eax, [idx]
 mov    edx, [someArray + 4*eax] ; implizite zero extension

Cheers,
Gerd








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