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- From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
- Subject: Re: Jumptable Performance (Was: Re: shared libs - can everyone be happy with this?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.154149.26416@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> <1992Aug18.080437.3944@fys.ruu.nl> <1992Aug18.140858.3484@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:41:49 GMT
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- In <1992Aug18.140858.3484@crd.ge.com> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug18.080437.3944@fys.ruu.nl>, hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) writes:
- >| 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?
- >|
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- >| 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?
-
- > Have you timed this with the time command (I posted one about 2 weeks
- >ago to tsx and banjo, hope it's up by now on tsx at least)? I have a
- >thought that the jump may be effecting the ratio of user/sys time (no, I
- >don't know how) and that would show it. I believe the flops uses the
- >user CPU to calculate performance, not the total.
-
- > That would also show the realtime, which I would expect to go up.
-
- Yes, that is what I expect too, but I didn't expect the usertime to go
- down at all, certainly not by over 0.5 seconds. We're talking a
- program here that runs for 25 hard CPU-seconds! I'll be timing again
- this evening, and might even retry the BYTE-bench this time. Twice,
- that is. I guess I'll be using jump-libs for the rest of my linux-life....
-
- --
- 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
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