Simon -- > I haven't tried this, so feel free to shoot me down, but is your 22% > speed-up based on an unpatched Parrot, or a patched Parrot without the > -P flag? I'm trying to work out whether or not this patch actually slows > down the general case, which wouldn't be pleasant.
Based on patched without the -P flag. The only additional cost is that of one additional test during setup. Its not in the inner loop. Its no more expensive in the general case than any of the other setup flag testing we do to choose, e.g. fast vs. slow core. Just to be sure, I grabbed a fresh copy from CVS. I get 24.00 mops for each of three trials each of unpatched and patched. On patched with the -P flag, I get 30.26 mops on each of three trials. At least on my system, I've not affected the general case one whit. Regards, -- Gregor _____________________________________________________________________ / Inspiration >> Innovation >> Excellence (TM) \ Gregor N. Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Focus Research, Inc. http://www.focusresearch.com/ 8080 Beckett Center Drive #203 513-860-3570 vox West Chester, OH 45069 513-860-3579 fax \_____________________________________________________________________/ [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]$ ping osama.taliban.af PING osama.taliban.af (68.69.65.68) from 20.1.9.11 : 56(84) bytes of data. >From 85.83.77.67: Time to live exceeded
