Re: Timer updates revision 7 (asm sets predicates/various fixes)

David Mosberger
2004-08-03T18:06:29Z

>>>>> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:33:56 -0700 (PDT), christoph@lameter.com said:

Christoph> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, David Mosberger wrote:
>> >>>>> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> said:
>>
Christoph> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, David Mosberger wrote:
>> >> It occurred to me now why your numbers are higher: I linked my
>> >> program statically, whereas yours is probably linked dynamically?
>>
Christoph> Correct. But why would this have an influence?
>>
>> I'm just trying to determine why our numbers were different. I dont like
>> unexplained differences.

Christoph> The different numbers may be due to the different kinds of scaling
Christoph> applied to the clock frequency to produce the ITC frequency.

No, I think they're precisely because you linked the program dynamically.
Try linking it statically. I'm fairly confident you'll get the
same/very similar numbers as I did.

--david