From: Giuliano Carlini <giuliano@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/13
Date: 1996-08-13T23:03:11-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32114FEF.17DC@ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bb88d4$022bf4a0$32ee6fce@timhome2
Tim Behrendsen wrote:
>
> Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@cern.ch> wrote in article
> <danpop.839807980@news.cern.ch>...
> > In <01bb87cf$97ae8e80$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> "Tim Behrendsen"
> <tim@airshields.com> writes:
> >
> > >Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@cern.ch> wrote in article
> > ><danpop.839594575@news.cern.ch>...
> > >> In <01bb8534$b2718bc0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> "Tim
> Behrendsen"
> > ><tim@airshields.com> writes:
> > >>
> > >> >Here's an example:
> > >> >
> > >> >int a[50000],b[50000],c[50000],d[50000],e[50000];
> > >> >
> > >> >void test1()
> > >> >{
> > >> > int i, j;
> > >> > for (j = 0; j < 10; ++j) {
> > >> > for (i = 0; i < 50000; ++i) {
> > >> > ++a[i]; ++b[i]; ++c[i]; ++d[i]; ++e[i];
> > >> > }
> > >> > }
> > >> >}
> > >> >
> > >> >void test2()
> > >> >{
> > >> > int i, j;
> > >> > for (j = 0; j < 10; ++j) {
> > >> > for (i = 0; i < 50000; ++i) ++a[i];
> > >> > for (i = 0; i < 50000; ++i) ++b[i];
> > >> > for (i = 0; i < 50000; ++i) ++c[i];
> > >> > for (i = 0; i < 50000; ++i) ++d[i];
> > >> > for (i = 0; i < 50000; ++i) ++e[i];
> > >> > }
> > >> >}
> > >> >
> > >> >On my AIX system, test1 runs in 2.47 seconds, and test2
> > >> >runs in 1.95 seconds using maximum optimization (-O3). The
> > >> >reason I knew the second would be faster is because I know
> > >> >to limit the amount of context information the optimizer has
> > >> >to deal with in the inner loops, and I know to keep memory
> > >> >localized.
> > >>
> > >> 1. For a marginal speed increase (~25%), you compromised the
> readability
> > >> of the code.
> > >
> > >You call 25% a "marginal" increase?
Actually, I would too. Typically, attacking slow spots by changing
algorithms, small changes to interface that permit massive
performance speedups, etc will often result in 50 to 90%
speedups. And these optimizations are portable, whereas depending
on the optimizer is not.
> >
> > Yes, I do call 25% a marginal increase. Would you be considerably
> happier
> > if everything would run 25% faster, at the expense of everything being
> > harder to develop and maintain by a factor of 2?
>
> No, I wouldn't be happier with "a factor of 2", but that's a
> very large presumption. Who's doing anything strange and
> arcane? I just made it easier on the compiler / computer.
As another data point, It did take me a lot longer to understand
code snippet 2 than one. Maybe 50%, maybe 200%, I can't say for
sure; my internal clock doesn't act like a stopwatch ;->
Depending on where in the code we're talking about, either of you could
be "right". The only 90/10 rule (90% of the execution time is taken
by 10% of the code) would dictate using this optimization in frequently
executed paths. The original is superior everyplace else due to
comprehension.
> Well, the compiler didn't do a very good job, does it?
> And that's the whole point. It is ivory tower naivete to
> think that compilers optimize everything perfectly every
> time.
Generally programmers shouldn't be optimizing code by hand
unless they are sure it affects the "bottom line". So, if
a performance analysis shows that you need to contort your
code to get a major speed-up, I'm all for it. Otherwise,
avoid them like the plague.
g
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1996-07-15 0:00 ` Steve Sobol
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-07-17 0:00 ` David Verschoore
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Mark McKinney
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1996-07-23 0:00 ` John A Hughes
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1996-07-29 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-08-06 0:00 ` StHeller
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1996-07-25 0:00 ` Erik Seaberg
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1996-07-27 0:00 ` Rick Elbers
1996-07-28 0:00 ` J. Christian Blanchette
1996-07-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Arra Avakian
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1996-08-05 0:00 ` Chris Sonnack
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
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1996-08-06 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Randy Kaelber
1996-08-09 0:00 ` J. Blustein
1996-08-11 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Chris Sonnack
1996-08-10 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-11 0:00 ` Dan Pop
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1996-07-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <01bb7588$236982e0$7b91f780@deangulo>
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-20 0:00 ` steidl
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Jon Bell
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Tim Oxler
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stig Norland
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Patrick Horgan
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Janus
[not found] ` <01bb7591$83087d60$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com>
1996-07-19 0:00 ` johnf
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Jeremy Nelson
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Jason Alan Turnage
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Jon Bell
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Alexander Vrenios
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Steve Tate
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Phil Howard
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Steve Tate
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-07-25 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-07-20 0:00 ` TRAN PHAN ANH
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Crash
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Jeremy Nelson
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-24 0:00 ` John A Hughes
1996-07-23 0:00 ` John A Hughes
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Dirk Dickmanns
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Walter B. Hollman Sr.
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Patrick Horgan
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Billy Chambless
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Jason Alan Turnage
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-20 0:00 ` steved
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22 0:00 ` steidl
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Michael Ickes
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Andy Askey
1996-07-24 0:00 ` system
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Jon Bell
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Andy Askey
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Vic Metcalfe
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems
1996-07-20 0:00 ` steidl
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Rich Maggio
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Reto Koradi
1996-07-23 0:00 ` TRAN PHAN ANH
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Wayne
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Andrew J Steinbach
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon Bell
1996-07-24 0:00 ` John A Hughes
1996-07-24 0:00 ` system
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-24 0:00 ` TRAN PHAN ANH
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Andy Askey
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Mark Eissler
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Patrick Horgan
1996-08-04 0:00 ` Gary M. Greenberg
[not found] ` <4u76ej$7s9@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-08-12 0:00 ` Patrick Horgan
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-08-13 0:00 ` What's the best language to learn? [was Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Joe Foster
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Joe Foster
1996-08-18 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-20 0:00 ` James Youngman
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Bob Gilbert
1996-08-15 0:00 ` DAVID A MOLNAR
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Bob Gilbert
1996-08-18 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Dr. Richard Botting
1996-08-18 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Mark Wooding
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Bengt Richter
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Clayton Weaver
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Bob Gilbert
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-18 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-26 0:00 ` Patrick Horgan
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Alan Peake
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Steve Heller
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Tom Watson
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Alan Peake
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Alan Peake
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` .
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-29 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-08-19 0:00 ` John Hobson
1996-08-19 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-19 0:00 ` John Hobson
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Alan Bowler
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Gabor Egressy
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Mark Wooding
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-18 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-08-18 0:00 ` Mark Wooding
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Tanmoy Bhattacharya
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Goto considered really harmful Patrick Horgan
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-08-21 0:00 ` What's the best language to learn? [any language except Ada] Bill Mackay
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-08-24 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Should I learn C or Pascal? Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-08-18 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-08-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Joe Keane
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Alexander J Russell
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Dr E. Buxbaum
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Paul Hsieh
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1996-08-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Paul Schlyter
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1996-08-21 0:00 ` James Youngman
1996-08-22 0:00 ` TRAN PHAN ANH
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Dr E. Buxbaum
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Jeffrey C. Dege
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-08-27 0:00 ` John Hobson
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Steve Heller
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Bob Cousins
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Patrick Horgan
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Delete - Don't Bother to Read This Charles H. Sampson
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Should I learn C or Pascal? Ralph Silverman
1996-08-16 0:00 ` What's the best language to learn? [was Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Darin Johnson
1996-08-16 0:00 ` system
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Should I learn C or Pascal? Darin Johnson
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-08-21 0:00 ` What's the best language to learn? [was Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Darin Johnson
1996-08-22 0:00 ` What's the best language to learn? [any language except Ada] Jon S Anthony
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-08-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Should I learn C or Pascal? Sherwin Anthony Sequeira
1996-07-25 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-07-25 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Robert Barnes
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Rob(t.) Brannan
1996-08-01 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-08-06 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Tony Konashenok
1996-08-04 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-07-25 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-07-31 0:00 ` What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Darin Johnson
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-08-03 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Patrick Horgan
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-08-08 0:00 ` steidl
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Alan Peake
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Andy Hardy
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Bob Gilbert
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Bob Gilbert
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Patrick Horgan
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-15 0:00 ` James_Rogers
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-10 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1996-08-10 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-11 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-10 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
1996-08-11 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-09 0:00 ` some days weren't there at all
1996-08-10 0:00 ` Mike Rubenstein
1996-08-11 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Richard Chiu
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Christopher R Volpe
1996-09-02 0:00 Richard A. O'Keefe
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1996-09-26 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Spencer M. Simpson, Jr.
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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