On Monday, 5 September 2016 at 11:20:08 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 05/09/2016 11:11 PM, Patric wrote:
I´m playing remaking D functionalities with nogc structs, and
to at
least match D performance.
But in this particular case i´m unable to get near D
performance. Can
someone point me out what i´m doing wrong, or if there is some
magic
behind the curtains on D strings?
https://dpaste.dzfl.pl/1c981fdc71ac
Ok lots of bad assumptions in there so lets declare what they
should be:
1. D supports three string types, string, wstring and dstring
with the character types of char, wchar and dchar.
Strings themselves have no special behavior in the compiler
as they are arrays.
2. Types such as char are fixed in size, no point multiplying
when its a constant 1.
3. A D string is length then pointer.
Ok, now on to implementation do not use StopWatch for
benchmarking. Use benchmark[0]. This will execute the benchmark
many times which removes one off errors.
Don't directly call malloc, it will never be free'd in this
case.
``new char(length)`` would be better as it will automatically
be handled by the GC.
You'll also want to reserve a block of memory to remove
allocation from the cost as much as possible (after all you're
not measuring that are you?). Don't forget to disable the GC as
well so it doesn't try to collect during the tests.
[0] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime.html#.benchmark
[1] http://dlang.org/spec/type.html
[2] http://dlang.org/spec/abi.html
[3]
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/master/src/object.d#L41
I´m aware of 1, and 2.
I look one million times on datetime and did´nt see the
benchmark, thanks xD
My intention is to not use gc at all, so no "new" for me.
Yes the optimal case will be reserve the memory beforehand, but
i´m benchmarking the opBinary.
So now a bit better example :)
https://dpaste.dzfl.pl/b9356f57a8c8
Daniel Kozak:
Ok, now it gets a bit weird.
On DPaste it shows:
14 ms and 343 μs - DString
3 ms and 928 μs - CustomString
And on my PC (with dub release mode) :
7 ms, 885 μs, and 9 hnsecs - DString
18 ms, 740 μs, and 8 hnsecs - CustomString
(!!!)
