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Re: Arithmetic overflow checking

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From	Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger@darkstargames.de>
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Subject	Re: Arithmetic overflow checking
Date	Thu, 8 Sep 2011 21:12:43 +0200
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Am Thu, 8 Sep 2011 21:02:43 +0200
schrieb Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger@darkstargames.de>:

> To give you some figures: Processing an interrupt takes Linux about 1
> to 10µs. On a 3GHz CPU that amounts to 30000 clockcycles, and most
> modern, pipelined CPUs finish at least 1 instruction per clock cycle;
> on a Intel Pentium or Core for the majority of instructions have a up
> to 8 finished instructions per clock cycle. In the time your proposed
> overflow-check interrupt is processed you can do about 200000 flag
> checks.

Well, I was off by a factor of ~10. The typical Linux ISR takes about
2000 clock cycles. Still going such a long way is still a lot slower
than checking the flag in under a cycle.


Wolfgang

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Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger@darkstargames.de> - 2011-09-08 21:02 +0200
  Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger@darkstargames.de> - 2011-09-08 21:12 +0200
    Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-09-08 19:15 +0000
      Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger@darkstargames.de> - 2011-09-08 22:24 +0200

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