gmp-devel Digest, Vol 4, Issue 6

[Raffi Chaglassian]

Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:24:18 +0000
From: John Edward Scott <gmp-list@>
Subject: Re: GMPBench 0.1 on an AMD64 == 5000
To: gmp-devel at swox.com
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:02:16PM +0100, Torbjorn Granlund wrote
> :... Just "configure; make" should give absymal performance, since it
> doesn't use any assembly loops.
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Yes I'd love to know how you compiled it too, since I ran across
the "absymal performance" that Torbjorn mentioned.

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Basically John, it's my GCC.  I compiled my gcc from source (gentoo rocks), not a snapshot, like most *nix installs.  My build detected that 64-bit insns were available, and some asm stuff in longlong.h.  
 
I had no idea my build was special until Torbjorn pointed it out to me in a private email.  It's thanks to the new gmp configure which detected and set up the gmp.h in the first place. 
 
But anyway, let's get to the important stuff:  x86_64 is a legitimate 64 bit architecture, and the speeds, price and performance are pretty staggering.  If you can put the registers to use, this is easily the best chip out there.  By a shitload, imo.
 
-Raffi
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