Re: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-10-16 Thread zeljko
On Thursday 02 of June 2011 22:36:53 Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 01.06.2011 22:07, schrieb Michalis Kamburelis: Hi, In my tests, FPC 2.4.4 has much slower CompareMem than FPC 2.4.2, at least for some cases: I've commited an improved version in r17642 Is this merged in 2.4.5 ? zeljko

Re: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 03.06.2011 03:06, schrieb Michalis Kamburelis: Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 01.06.2011 22:07, schrieb Michalis Kamburelis: Hi, In my tests, FPC 2.4.4 has much slower CompareMem than FPC 2.4.2, at least for some cases: I've commited an improved version in r17642 That's great :) I just

Re: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-03 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Florian Klämpfl wrote: I improved CompareDWord as well, for your application it should be even better. Ha, I hesitated earlier to mention that CompareWord and CompareDWord are ~4 times slower than equivalent (on the same number of bytes) CompareMem/CompareByte calls :) Cool, times with

Re: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-02 Thread Sven Barth
On 01.06.2011 22:07, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Any thoughts? Maybe something can be improved? 1. Why CompareMem got slower in FPC 2.4.4? Maybe something can be fixed? Let's see... CompareMem in 2.4.2: === source begin === function CompareMem(P1, P2: Pointer; Length: cardinal): Boolean;

Re: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-02 Thread Sergei Gorelkin
02.06.2011 19:49, Sven Barth пишет: Maybe it's better if you or someone else would try to improve the performance of the i386 assembler code that makes up the Compare(Byte/Word/DWord) functions (it's located in rtl/i386/i386.inc btw). I tend to agree. The string instructions used there (rep

Re: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-02 Thread José Mejuto
Hello FPC, Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 10:07:18 PM, you wrote: MK In my tests, FPC 2.4.4 has much slower CompareMem than FPC 2.4.2, at MK least for some cases: The difference is that CompareMem takes the same time to check a memory block if the elements are equal or different, while the pascal

Re: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-02 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 02.06.2011 18:45, schrieb José Mejuto: Hello FPC, PlainCompare CompareByteXCompareByte --- Equal arrays 1000 elements 16250 ms 625 ms 656 ms Diff. arrays 1000 elements

Re: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-02 Thread José Mejuto
Hello FPC, Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 10:07:18 PM, you wrote: MK In my tests, FPC 2.4.4 has much slower CompareMem than FPC 2.4.2, at MK least for some cases: Please take care with my last email, it has a bug that result in wrong speed tests, anyway after fixing the bug, the magic number for

Re[2]: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-02 Thread José Mejuto
Hello FPC, Thursday, June 2, 2011, 7:03:10 PM, you wrote: FK Am 02.06.2011 18:45, schrieb José Mejuto: Hello FPC, PlainCompare CompareByteXCompareByte --- Equal arrays 1000 elements 16250

Re[2]: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-02 Thread José Mejuto
Hello FPC, Thursday, June 2, 2011, 7:03:10 PM, you wrote: PlainCompare CompareByteXCompareByte --- Equal arrays 1000 elements 16250 ms 625 ms 656 ms Diff. arrays 1000 elements

Re: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-02 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 01.06.2011 22:07, schrieb Michalis Kamburelis: Hi, In my tests, FPC 2.4.4 has much slower CompareMem than FPC 2.4.2, at least for some cases: I've commited an improved version in r17642 ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-02 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 01.06.2011 22:07, schrieb Michalis Kamburelis: Hi, In my tests, FPC 2.4.4 has much slower CompareMem than FPC 2.4.2, at least for some cases: I've commited an improved version in r17642 That's great :) I just tested with fpc from SVN (rev 17644), and can confirm

[fpc-devel] CompareMem slower in FPC 2.4.4

2011-06-01 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Hi, In my tests, FPC 2.4.4 has much slower CompareMem than FPC 2.4.2, at least for some cases: # with fpc 2.4.4 $ time ./compare_mem_test 1 real0m7.795s user0m7.764s sys 0m0.008s # with fpc 2.4.2 $ time ./compare_mem_test 1 real0m1.218s user0m1.216s sys