I keep hearing about how aligning XXX on XX boundaries (or similar) gives huge performance increases etc..
Where's a good place to start finding out about these techniques? -Nick On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 18:37, Steve Harris wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 12:19:04 +0200, Anders Torger wrote: > > Uhh... it seems to be totally unrelated to anything... just some > > spurious cache problem, sometimes, if the code is executed in a > > particular order, the memory layout is beneficial, sometimes it is not. > > dlopen seems to have nothing to do with it. I just have to live with > > it... > > Yeah, I've seen this. If you look around on the web there is some code for > cache aligning in x86's - I've never tried it though. > > In the last plugin I was writing I got a huge perfomance increase by > increasing the size of a ringbuffer, of course that was only in one host. > > - Steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
