I've ported GMP to Mac Pro. GMPbench > 7700

[Jason Martin]

After everything is in cache and the limb count is high enough, I'm
getting 3 clock cycles/limb on Woodcrest and 3.5 clock cycles/limb on
Conroe.  Note, however, that to test my code out on my Linux Conroe
box, I had to replace the lahf and sahf instructions with bt and setc
which seem to be a little slower (at least Agner Fog says so).  I've
attached my testing code and timing routines so you can see exactly
what I'm doing.

--jason


On 14 Oct 2006 16:18:48 +0200, Torbjorn Granlund <tege at swox.com> wrote:
> "Jason Worth Martin" <martinjw at jmu.edu> writes:
>
>   I've ported GMP to the Mac Pro (and it passes "make check").  I
>   thought you might be interested since  I saw some archived posts on
>   the poor Core 2 results.  I re-wrote add_n.asm and sub_n.asm and got a
>   nice speed up by unrolling the loop and getting rid of the "inc"
>   instruction.  I've attached a tarball with the relevant files and
>   details.
>
> I've made some experiments too, using the forgotten instruction jrcxz:
>
> beginloop:
>         jrcxz   exitloop
>         lea     -1(%rcx), %rcx
>         add...
>         jmp     beginloop
>
>   I believe that this code could be ported to Core 2 Linux machines, but
>   the GNU assembler doesn't want to let me use the "sahf" and "lahf"
>   instructions to save the flags between loop iterations.  The Apple
>   assembler doesn't have a problem with it.  I'll see about replacing
>   those instructions with a combitation of "bt" and "test" for a Linux
>   version.
>
> What sort of performance, as measured by tune/speed do you get for
> your new functions?
>
> --
> Torbjörn
>


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