Re: Do you use a garbage collector?

From:
"Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:47:35 +0200
Message-ID:
<66hckiF2jtd8fU1@mid.individual.net>
Razii wrote:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:48:12 -0700 (PDT), gpderetta
<gpderetta@gmail.com> wrote:

No, you are not. Add -DNDEBUG. Also did you measure with -O3?


Yes I tried -O3. There was no difference.

Did you
try to tune -march for your architecture (this can make a *lot* of
difference - or not, depending of the program)?


Why? At least commercial C++ software will have to target the
least-common-denominator processor. The flags we use must target the
least-common-denominator processor.


Of course not, now you are being silly again.

If the program runs fast enough on mid-sized hardware, optimize for
that. It will run even better on the big iron.

If you need the lastest hardware, optimize for that. Don't bother with
the rest.

In any case, I added

-march=athlon-xp


You're kidding! :-)

there was no change.

Time: 26656 ms

Java version (with the flags I suggested) is at

Time: 1789 ms

14 (or is that 15?) times faster.


Ok, so for Java you must optmize for the actual test machine? :-))

Bo Persson

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