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Re: Arithmetic overflow checking

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Wolfgang Draxinger wrote:
) 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 10??s. 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.

So if an overflow condition typically occurs less than 1 in 10000 times,
the interrupt solution is better.


SaSW, Willem
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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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