Re: [PATCHES] inline newNode()

Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> writes:
> On 10 Oct 2002, Neil Conway wrote:
> > Compiled with '-DBUFFER_SIZE=256 -O2', I get the following results in
> > seconds:
> >
> > MemSet(): ~9.6
> > memset(): ~19.5
> > __builtin_memset(): ~10.00
>
> I ran the same code. I do not understand the results you go.

Interesting -- it may be the case that the optimizations performed by
GCC are architecture specific.

I searched for some threads about this on the GCC list. One
interesting result was this:

        http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-04/msg01114.html

One possible explanation for the different performance you saw is
explained by Jan Hubicka:

        http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-04/msg01146.html

One thing that confuses me is that GCC decides *not* to use
__builtin_memset() for some reason, even though it appears to be
superior to normal memset() on both of our systems.

Cheers,

Neil

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