Ooo, that might be just what we need. Thank you Stefan.
Kit
On 10/10/2023 10:57, Stefan Glienke via fpc-devel wrote:
Be my guest making https://github.com/spring4d/benchmark compatible for all
platforms you need it for.
On 10/10/2023 11:13 CEST J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
<fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
Thanks Tomas,
Nothing is broken, but the timing measurement isn't precise enough.
Normally I have a much higher iteration count (e.g. 1,000,000), but I
had reduced it to 10,000 because, coupled with the 1,000 iterations in
the subroutines themselves, would have led to 1,000,000,000 passes and
hence would take in the region of five to ten minutes to complete for a
16 MHz 386, for example. Rika's suggestion of running as many
iterations as needed until, say, 5 seconds elapses, would help but the
timing measurements would cause a lot of latency and will be imprecise
on very slow routines. Still, let's see if 100,000 gives better results
for you.
Kit
On 10/10/2023 09:57, Tomas Hajny wrote:
On 2023-10-09 20:51, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
Hi Kit,
I updated the "blea" test in the merge request so it now displays the
processor brand name on x86_64; however, it is not fetched under i386
because CPUID was not introduced until later 486 processors. I've
attached it to this e-mail if anyone wants to take a look to ensure I
haven't broken something.
I don't know what's broken, but the results vary so much on a fast
machine that they are unusable for any measurement from my point of
view (standard 3.2.2 compiler, compiled with -O4 and running under MS
Windows this time). Sometimes the ADD version shows 0.0 ns/call,
sometimes the LEA version shows 0.0 ns/call (32-bits) or 0.1 ns/call
(64-bits). See the attached results (the CPU is only displayed for the
64-bit compilation, but it's obviously the same CPU).
Tomas
On 09/10/2023 18:01, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
Thank you very much! That processor is built on the Excavator
architecture and lines up with the flag I put in the merge request
(i.e. it has the "fast LEA" hint).
I honestly didn't expect this much testing feedback, so thank you all!
Gareth aka. Kit
P.S. I'm tempted to extend the test slightly to actually name the
CPU automatically.
On 09/10/2023 15:40, Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-devel wrote:
My results:
jean@First-Boss:~/temp$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"
model name : AMD A6-7480 Radeon R5, 8 Compute Cores 2C+6G
jean@First-Boss:~/temp$ /usr/bin/fpc blea.pp
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.2 [2021/07/09] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2021 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling blea.pp
Linking blea
95 lines compiled, 0.2 sec
jean@First-Boss:~/temp$ ./blea
Pascal control case: 5.1 ns/call
Using LEA instruction: 0.5 ns/call
Using ADD instructions: 0.8 ns/call
jean@First-Boss:~/temp$
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