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From: ebiederman@lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Joakim Tjernlund" <Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se>
Cc: "Wolfgang Denk" <wd@denx.de>,  "Marc Singer" <elf@buici.com>,
	<linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: crc32() optimization
Date: 10 Nov 2002 16:56:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k7jl0yj5.fsf@maxwell.default.domain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002b01c2890c$f2c058e0$0200a8c0@telia.com>

"Joakim Tjernlund" <Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se> writes:

> > In message <001301c28909$743f1f40$0200a8c0@telia.com> you wrote:
> > > I could not wait until tomorrow, so I did it now instead.
> > > The result was worse. The best I got was 7% improvement.
> > > I tried 16, 8, 6 and 4 as unrolling steps.
> > 
> > Makes no sense to me.  Should  be  at  least  as  efficient  as  your
> > original code (marginally better).
> 
> I don't understand this either.
> Anyone?

You might try it with 6.  But a lot depends on what gcc can do with
it and gcc may not be like all of those potential entry points.. 

Running gcc -S and checking to see the difference in the generated
assembly might be instructive.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-10 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <F122OgRGkQ6mBySsxVY00000854@hotmail.com>
     [not found] ` <24987.1036797874@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>
2002-11-10 15:28   ` crc32() optimization Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-10 18:43     ` Marc Singer
2002-11-10 19:25       ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-11-10 20:05         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-10 21:00           ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-11-10 21:22             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-10 22:35               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-10 22:41                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-11-10 23:00                   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-10 23:56                     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2002-11-11  1:31             ` Marc Singer
2002-11-11  1:37               ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-11-11  4:42                 ` Marc Singer
2002-11-25 15:55                   ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-11-25 16:12                     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-11-11  0:50         ` Marc Singer
2002-11-10 20:04       ` Joakim Tjernlund

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