Re: FunctionCallN improvement.

Sorry, forgot the compiler version.

gcc (GCC) 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:12:04 +0000, Mike Rylander <mrylander(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:23:56 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > a_ogawa <a_ogawa(at)hi-ho(dot)ne(dot)jp> writes:
> > > I made the test program to measure the effect of this macro.
> >
> > Well, if we're going to be tense about this, let's actually be tense
> > about it. Your test program isn't a great model for what's going to
> > happen in fmgr.c, because you've designed it so that Nargs cannot be
> > known at compile time. In the fmgr routines, Nargs is certainly a
> > compile-time constant, and so implementations that can exploit that
> > will have an advantage.
> >
>
> <big snip>
>
> Here are some numbers for AMD64 (gcc -O2 -I
> /opt/include/postgresql/server/ pg_test.c -o pg_test):
>
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -memset 1000000000
> test MemSetLoop(2): 1000000000
>
> real 1m15.896s
> user 1m15.881s
> sys 0m0.006s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -origmacro 1000000000
> test OrigMacro(2): 1000000000
>
> real 0m4.217s
> user 0m4.215s
> sys 0m0.001s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -setmacro 1000000000
> test SetMacro(2): 1000000000
>
> real 0m4.217s
> user 0m4.216s
> sys 0m0.001s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -unrolled 1000000000
> test Unrolled(2): 1000000000
>
> real 0m4.218s
> user 0m4.215s
> sys 0m0.002s
>
> and now with -O6:
>
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -memset 1000000000
> test MemSetLoop(2): 1000000000
>
> real 1m13.624s
> user 1m13.542s
> sys 0m0.001s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -origmacro 1000000000
> test OrigMacro(2): 1000000000
>
> real 0m2.929s
> user 0m2.926s
> sys 0m0.001s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -setmacro 1000000000
> test SetMacro(2): 1000000000
>
> real 0m2.929s
> user 0m2.926s
> sys 0m0.000s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -unrolled 1000000000
> test Unrolled(2): 1000000000
>
> real 0m2.510s
> user 0m2.508s
> sys 0m0.001s
>
> Now with NARGS = 5, -O2:
>
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -memset 1000000000
> test MemSetLoop(5): 1000000000
>
> real 1m15.204s
> user 1m15.175s
> sys 0m0.002s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -origmacro 1000000000
> test OrigMacro(5): 1000000000
>
> real 0m10.027s
> user 0m10.022s
> sys 0m0.001s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -setmacro 1000000000
> test SetMacro(5): 1000000000
>
> real 0m4.177s
> user 0m4.177s
> sys 0m0.000s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -unrolled 1000000000
> test Unrolled(5): 1000000000
>
> real 0m5.013s
> user 0m5.011s
> sys 0m0.000s
>
> And once more, with -O6:
>
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -memset 1000000000
> test MemSetLoop(5): 1000000000
>
> real 1m47.090s
> user 1m46.972s
> sys 0m0.000s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -origmacro 1000000000
> test OrigMacro(5): 1000000000
>
> real 0m8.367s
> user 0m8.358s
> sys 0m0.000s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -setmacro 1000000000
> test SetMacro(5): 1000000000
>
> real 0m3.349s
> user 0m3.345s
> sys 0m0.000s
> miker(at)weezie miker $ time ./pg_test -unrolled 1000000000
> test Unrolled(5): 1000000000
>
> real 0m3.347s
> user 0m3.343s
> sys 0m0.000s
>
>
> Hope the numbers help!
>
> --
> Mike Rylander
> mrylander(at)gmail(dot)com
> GPLS -- PINES Development
> Database Developer
> http://open-ils.org
>

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Mike Rylander
mrylander(at)gmail(dot)com
GPLS -- PINES Development
Database Developer
http://open-ils.org