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Re: [Mono-list] mono performance, 20x differential with Java (what am i doing wrong)

Jonathan Shore
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:03:41 -0800

Alan,  fair enough, I'll give that a shot.  It would be great to see support 
for SSE folded into the core VM.   Or is the idea to later (or currently) 
utilize GPUs as well?

On Jan 29, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Alan McGovern wrote:

> Also, while I think of it. If you're doing a lot of repetitive calculations 
> on arrays, you should look into using Mono.SIMD. The most recent example of 
> perf benefits can be found here: 
> http://blog.reblochon.org/2010/01/talk-teaser-image-processing-with.html .  A 
> C# SIMD-optimised version of an image processing function turned out to be 
> ~6.5x faster than the native C version. I'd assume that if the native C 
> version was SIMD optimised aswell it'd be on par/faster than the mono 
> implementation, but it does show the power of Mono.SIMD.
> 
> Alan.
> 
> 
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