From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8c8550b9f2cf7d40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-08 21:27:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is ther any sense in *= and matrices? Date: 8 Jun 2003 21:27:13 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1055132834 18717 127.0.0.1 (9 Jun 2003 04:27:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jun 2003 04:27:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38844 Date: 2003-06-09T04:27:14+00:00 List-Id: "Bobby D. Bryant" wrote in message news:... > On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 11:51:31 -0700, Russ wrote: > > > "John R. Strohm" wrote in message > > news:... > > >> With all due respect, ladies and gentlemen, it has been known for a > >> very long time that the difference in "efficiency" between A := A + B > >> and A += B is lost in the noise floor compared to the improvements that > >> can be gotten by improving the algorithms involved. > > > > Oh, really? I just did a test in C++ with 3x3 matrices. I added them > > together 10,000,000 times using "+", then "+=". The "+=" version took > > about 19 seconds, and the "+" version took about 55 seconds. That's just > > shy of a factor of 3, folks. If that's your "noise floor," I can't help > > wonder what kind of "algorithms" you are dealing with! > > I'm just curious why the compiler didn't generate the same code for both > versions. The compiler didn't generate the code. I did.