>>>>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:51:17 +0100, Christian Hildner said: Christian> Did you have benchmarks? Or at least a comparison of the Christian> resulting code size. The code size should shrink when Christian> more items can be addressed directly. Furthermore the Christian> code size should be a good indicator for the performance Christian> gain you could achive.
David Mosberger wrote on Monday, January 24, 2005 9:53 AM > I'm curious about this too. Ken, do you have a real-world benchmark > where improved GP-relative addressability actually made a significant > difference? I don't have any benchmark result off hand. But digging through recent data, for a well known db benchmark, GOT table access account to about 4% of total memory latency in the kernel. - Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
