On 12/2/05, Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yup. We can tune for workload/load-latency of each architecture.
> I think tuning for all of them in one source code is the current problem.
> We have to come up with a way for the compiler to insert (or not)
> prefetching at different places for different architectures (and maybe
> even CPU model) in order for this to be acceptable/optimal.
>
We could use a macro defined for each arch which would or not do the
prefetch I guess.  I don't they exist today but we could do that.

I would still like to see some real data showing that it hurts in
certain architectures however.

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Cheers,
John
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