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- From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
- Subject: Jumptable Performance (Was: Re: shared libs - can everyone be happy with this?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.080437.3944@fys.ruu.nl>
- Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Aug17.144719.1961@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug17.151311.29507@ods.com> <NOP.92Aug17135014@theory.Mankato.MSUS.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:04:37 GMT
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- In <NOP.92Aug17135014@theory.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> nop@theory.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (Jay A. Carlson) writes:
-
- >I'm not sure that all this trouble is worth it. Does anyone have any
- >hard data on the performance loss of jump tables?
-
- Well, I think the only way to correctly test thi is to run the BYTE
- bench again. Especially the 'concurrent shell script' part. I didn't
- do this yet, but I had a very strange experience with the jumptables
- yesterday, and it is reproducible (so far).
-
- I compiled the 'flops.c' V1.2 program thas has been posted to
- comp.benchmarks last february. This is a program, as the name implies,
- that tests the FPU and certainly not the library. On my 486/33 results were:
-
- gcc -O6 -N -s -o flops flops.c ===> 1.65 Mflops
-
- gcc -O6 -N -s -o flops flops.c -jump ===> 1.70 Mflops
-
- (Note that I didn't try to -m486 the thing... yet. And: yes: I know that -O6 is
- not better than -O2)
-
- I didn't believe this, so I repeated it many times. Is there any one
- who has an explanation for the fact that the '-jump'ed executable is
- 3% faster? Could this be caused by a difference in the crt0.o?
-
- For the people that are interested in performance, some more results:
-
- gcc -O6 -N -s -o flops flops.c -jump -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops
- ===> 1.80 Mflops
-
- gcc -O6 -N -s -o flops flops.c -jump -msoft-float
- ===> 0.60 Mflops
- --
- Rob Hooft, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research,
- Chemistry department University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
- hooft@hutruu54.bitnet hooft@chem.ruu.nl hooft@fys.ruu.nl hooft@cc.ruu.nl
-