>That's very strange. The branch-prediction may or may not help, >depending on your test program. The srlz.d elimination definitely >should help, though. What test-program are you using? Also, are you >using McKinley or Madison?
Madison ... but it might be an oddball stepping (it is very old). I have a home-grown test that reads ar.itc before/after the getpid() and saves the difference in an array. The program repeats 1000 times, then prints the min, max and median number of cycles. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
