From: Mike Lin <nilekim@gmail.com>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] testers wanted for experimental SSE2 back-end
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:25:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a1a1a0c1003101125v32ec2e2fh82bf0e08138f791a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B967857.3070303@inria.fr>
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
> - The register-based SSE2 model fits the OCaml back-end much better
> than the stack-based x87 model. In particular, "let"-bound intermediate
> results of type "float" can be kept in SSE2 registers, while in
> the current x87 mode they are systematically flushed to the stack.
>
> Note that x86-64 bits systems as well as Mac OS X already use SSE2 as
> their default floating-point model.
>
I have a bunch of biological sequence analysis stuff that could be
interesting but I am already in x86-64 ("Wow! A 64 bit architecture!"). The
above seems pretty clear but just to verify - I would not benefit from this
new back-end, right?
Mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-10 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-09 16:33 Xavier Leroy
2010-03-10 19:25 ` Mike Lin [this message]
2010-03-10 20:51 ` [Caml-list] " Will M. Farr
2010-03-11 8:42 ` Xavier Leroy
2010-03-13 16:10 ` Gaëtan DUBREIL
2010-03-23 8:58 ` Dmitry Bely
2010-03-23 9:07 ` Daniel Bünzli
2010-03-23 9:22 ` Dmitry Bely
2010-03-29 16:49 ` Xavier Leroy
2010-03-29 18:58 ` Dmitry Bely
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