Re: [BENCHMARK] Corrected gcc3.2 v gcc2.95.3 contest results

Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-23T14:02:18Z

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > > It would sure be nice for this sortof test if there were
> > > some sort of a "flush-all-caches" syscall...
> >
> > I think all you need to do is reload the code-segment register
> > and you end up flushing caches in ix86.
>
> i'm pretty sure what was meant was the flushing of the pagecache mainly.
> The state of CPU caches does not really play in these several-minutes
> benchmarks, they are at most a few millisecs worth of CPU time to build.
>

Okay. Sorry about that.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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