From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Optimizing Float Ref's
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:15:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908311815.52663.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3041D62-4F8D-4121-8CEF-5EE810D8FFA6@MIT.EDU>
On Friday 28 August 2009 21:32:55 Will M Farr wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm running OCaml 3.11.1, and I noticed something strange in some
> native code for matrix multiply today.
I'm running OCaml 3.11.0 and I get the opposite result on both x86 and x64:
$ ./will
Took 31.445965s
Took 39.942496s
$ ./will
Took 25.457591s
Took 40.414526s
> But, I thought that float ref's were automatically unboxed by the
> compiler when they didn't escape the local context. Is this a
> complier bug, is there a bad interaction with unsafe_get and
> unsafe_set, or is there something else going on that I don't
> understand? Any enlightenment would be appreciated.
That appears to occur in this case on my machine but it can be hampered
sometimes if the accumulator is returned immediately and the problem worked
around by performing a redundant floating point operation (such as 1.0 *. x)
on the result.
--
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-31 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-28 20:32 Will M Farr
2009-08-30 19:43 ` [Caml-list] " Yaron Minsky
2009-08-31 14:09 ` Till Varoquaux
2009-08-31 14:51 ` Will M Farr
2009-08-31 17:30 ` Jon Harrop
2009-08-31 17:15 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2009-09-03 9:44 ` Xavier Leroy
2009-09-03 10:15 ` Will M Farr
2010-03-31 17:21 ` Dmitry Bely
[not found] ` <p2tc7e4e9f1003311055xce0919wac2118aa3c05f1cb@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-31 18:28 ` Dmitry Bely
2010-03-31 18:59 ` Alain Frisch
2010-03-31 19:18 ` Dmitry Bely
[not found] ` <m2lfbd71dab1003311252v5bda5d13vc2146d2d24270847@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-31 20:00 ` Dmitry Bely
2010-04-14 18:13 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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