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Date:      Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:39:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        julian@ref.tfs.com
Cc:        mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu, current@freebsd.org, nisha@cs.berkeley.edu, tege@matematik.su.se, hasty@rah.star-gate.com
Subject:   Re: fast memory copy for large data sizes
Message-ID:  <199604052039.MAA25813@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199604052011.MAA13929@ref.tfs.com> (julian@ref.tfs.com)

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Marc, thanks for running the test.

 * > sh runtests
 * >     size     libc             ours
 * >       32   7.629395 MB/s   7.629395 MB/s
 * >       64  12.207031 MB/s   4.695012 MB/s
 * [...]
 * >  2097152  12.164192 MB/s   7.725020 MB/s
 * >  4194304  12.290410 MB/s   7.719504 MB/s
 * > mrami[~/bcopy]$
 * 
 * these tests SEEM to be indicating that the bcopy in libc
 * is already better!  or am I misreading something?

No, it only shows the libc version is faster on a 486.  We expected
that, as the FP unit on a 486 is much slower than a Pentium.  (Even a
straight int -> FP conversion takes a lot of time I guess.)

Any other Pentium owners? :)

Satoshi



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