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Re: Odd benchmark behavior

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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> (The ratio between gcc -O3 and gcc -O0 was 1.13:1 with your benchmark, but
> 4:1 with the regular sieve, however the latter does repeat the main loop
> thousands of times, which I suspect -O3 takes advantage of. You need a
> different benchmark which isn't repetitive, and doesn't use too much memory
> either, otherwise the timings will be dominated by memory accesses.)

Very good point, did not think of that!  I already suspected that the
results were tightly knit to my benchmark program, because I did some
other tests where SCC performed as lousy as expected.

Alright, now going to implement the optimizer...

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Nils M Holm  < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g >  www.t3x.org

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Odd benchmark behavior Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2012-03-26 07:51 +0000
  Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-03-26 11:26 +0200
    Re: Odd benchmark behavior "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-03-26 10:40 +0100
      Re: Odd benchmark behavior gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 03:37 -0700
      Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-03-26 14:13 +0200
    Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-03-26 11:55 +0200
      Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-03-27 09:17 +0200
        Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-03-27 09:20 +0200
          Re: Odd benchmark behavior "Scott Fluhrer" <sfluhrer@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-03-27 13:39 -0400
          Re: Odd benchmark behavior pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-03-27 21:49 -0500
            Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-04-05 12:18 +0200
              Re: Odd benchmark behavior pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-04-05 06:48 -0400
                Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-04-05 14:12 +0200
                Re: Odd benchmark behavior pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-04-05 09:03 -0400
                Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-04-05 16:18 +0200
                Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-04-07 13:26 +0200
                Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-04-06 09:31 +0200
        Re: Odd benchmark behavior "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-03-27 19:01 +0200
  Re: Odd benchmark behavior "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-03-26 10:36 +0100
    Re: Odd benchmark behavior Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2012-03-26 10:02 +0000
  Re: Odd benchmark behavior Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-26 22:58 +1300
  Re: Odd benchmark behavior "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-03-26 15:16 +0100
    Re: Odd benchmark behavior Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2012-03-27 06:20 +0000
      Re: Odd benchmark behavior "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-03-27 10:13 +0100
        Re: Odd benchmark behavior Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2012-03-27 11:59 +0000

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