On 4 apr 2006, at 11:41, Пётр Косаревский wrote:
They are equally fast if you turn on register variables and if enough
free registers are available (e.g. on a PPC; possibly also on an x86
if you have a very simple loop and little or no variables used both
before and after the loop).
It's wrong.
bigmac:~/fpc/test jonas$ ppcppc69 -O3 tarr
Target OS: Darwin for PowerPC
Compiling tarr.pp
Assembling testdynstat
Linking tarr
43 Lines compiled, 0.3 sec
bigmac:~/fpc/test jonas$ ./tarr
Enter dyn array len (1-1000000):1000000
Total:4789ms
Total:4809ms
bigmac:~/fpc/test jonas$ ./tarr
Enter dyn array len (1-1000000):1000000
Total:4897ms
Total:4787ms
About the number of variables: you saw the whole source of the
sample program.
About register variables: I compiled it with -O3rp4 options.
2.0.2 has less efficient register variable allocation. And your
program requires 9 permanently free registers to be able to make
optimal use of regvars. That is impossible to achieve on an x86,
since in the best case you only have 7 (and usually less, since you
need some scratch registers as well and ebp is occupied most of the
time).
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