measure costs of computation on mpf t-variables

[Décio Luiz Gazzoni Filho]

On Jul 28, 2005, at 7:08 AM, usenett at gmx.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i have the following question. I wanted to measure how much cycles an
> initialization, multiplication and so on for some special mpf_t  
> variables
> costs. Paradoxically the first loop needs quantities more cycles  
> than the
> arithmetical average. For the initialization up to 110000 (in  
> average about
> 420), for the multiplication up to 5000 (in average about 160).
> Can anyone explain why this the case?
> Is there ay better way to get the costs of some computation than mine?

What's paradoxical about it? This is exactly what I would expect,  
mostly due to cache effects.

Décio

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