Alexander Gorshenev wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Danek Duvall wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:50:52AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> >
> >> With "-xO3" it takes ~31 seconds to execute this script.
> >> With "-xc99=%all -xO4 -xalias_level=basic -xdepend" it takes ~39 seconds
> >> to execute this script.
> >>
> >> Erm... the results are somehow upside-down from what I would expect from
> >> these options... ;-(
> >
> > A typical response to that is that the function inlining that -xO4 turns on
> > makes small programs bigger, and less likely to fit in cache or in a set of
> > cache lines, resulting in memory thrashing and lower performance.  I expect
> > that cputrack(1m) would help you figure out if that's happening.
> 
> This is in the userland, right?

Yes... this is about ksh93. Contrary to gdamore's fears I do not plan to
convert it into a kernel module... =:-)

> Sun Studio Performance Analyzer is your choice.

Thanks! :-)
.... right now I am building a test matrix to check which option
combination trigger the issue...

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Bye,
Roland

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