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Subject: Re: Is Crafty not in the WCCC2004?

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 07:12:00 05/25/04

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>>>Yes.  I have inlined FirstOne()/LastOne() to use the 64 bit AMD BSF/BSR
>>>instructions.   There were several changes dealing with updating global shared
>>>data that were made to cut down on cache-to-cache (MOESI) transactions and
>>>overhead.  There were changes made to make local data be allocated in a
>>>processor's local memory to decrease access time. Etc...

I know cache-cache is traditionally slow, but I thought that on the opteron it
was fast, what with the hypertransport link and all.  I need to review my
multiprocessor notes, but it seems logical that

CPU -> CPU >= CPU -> CPU -> MEMORY

anthony



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