Testing your C++ program (altered getCycle() for GCC)
Times I get:
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Sorting with Array: 46869.159840
Sorting with pointers: 38688.937320
17.453316 percent faster
Sorting with Array: 46631.903760
Sorting with pointers: 38520.609360
17.394302 percent faster
Sorting with Array: 46674.330720
Sorting with pointers: 38545.202520
17.416700 percent faster
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On a , I thought I might try an older version of GCC for the D program.
Really surprisingly, I got:
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Sorting with Array.opIndex: 43075.059840
Sorting with pointers: 40019.701920
7.093102 percent faster
Sorting with Array.opIndex: 42940.085640
Sorting with pointers: 39594.089040
7.792245 percent faster
Sorting with Array.opIndex: 44389.127280
Sorting with pointers: 41159.016960
7.276805 percent faster
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This will need some thinking through as to just what happened between
GDC-4.3 -> GDC-4.4 :~)
Regards
Curious benches there. Seems GCC isn't inlining (or other optimization) as
well as Visual C++ here. I'm getting a neglible ~2% difference.
-Craig
