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From: "Isaac Gouy" <igouy@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: ada is getting spanked :(
Date: 29 Oct 2006 17:01:49 -0800
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Isaac Gouy wrote:
> Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> > Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> > >
> > > In order to optimize GNAT's standing, I have made a small
> > > but quite effective change to one of Jim Rogers' programs
> > > (regex-dna #2), the factor is 14 (fourteen). Nothing submitted
> > > yet, please use this as a starting point if you like.
> >
> > I've found a small change that improves the nsieve program (also Jim
> > Rogers). Change the line
> >
> > S (I) := False;
> >
> > to
> >
> > if S (I) then
> >     S (I) := False;
> > end if;
> >
> > on my computer (3.2 GHz Pentium 4 HT), compiled with MinGW GNAT 3.4.2 with
> >
> > -O3 -gnatnp -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer
> >
> > the time was reduced from about 1.8 s for the original to about 1.1 s
> > with this modification, a speedup of 38.9%. Applied to the 2.71 s
> > reported time, that would give GNAT 1.66 s, which would move it to 3rd
> > place.
> >
> > I hope no one thinks we're picking on Jim.
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Carter
> > "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
> > Monty Python & the Holy Grail
> > 06
>
> Thanks for the reminder that I should throwout/fix the programs that
> use a test to avoid doing what the benchmark description asks them to
> do :-)

And that has now been done (although it will be a little while before
the ripple reaches the Debian/AMD measurements).