On 21 November 2005 14:57, Matt wrote:
> I was doing some work with Word64 and noticed that it was about 3
> times slower than Int64. The reason appears to be expensive
> conversions from Int64# to Word64# and vice versa. I modified the
> libraries to remove the conversion overhead, and the result is that
> Int64# and Word64# now have equal performance, at least on the domain
> that I tested (==, +, -).
>
> I can't check into the tree, so I was told to send my changes to this
> list. Could someone else check them in? I have attached a patch file
> representing my changes.
Thanks for the patch - but could you try this instead?
int64ToWord64# = unsafeCoerce#
word64ToInt64# = unsafeCoerce#
this should reduce the cost of the conversions to zero, which is a
simpler way to fix the performance bug (if it works).
If you confirm that this also improves performance, I'll commit it. If
not, I'll commit your patch instead.
Cheers,
Simon
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