From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: fixed point vs floating point
Date: 1997/11/25
Date: 1997-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.880514112@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 347b5dee.107124246@news.gsfc.nasa.gov
John says
<<Table lookup has been an important speed optimization for many years,
but does it still work well on newer processors? My experience is that
I don't get the speed improvements that I expect, probably due to the
increasing penalty for cache misses on faster processors. The trend
seems to be that branch-free pipelined code will run faster than table
lookups. Have optimizing compilers kept up with the shifting
tradeoffs?
>>
Indeed with the modern progression of ever increasing values for the
ratio (processor-speed / main-memory-speed), table lookup can often
be quite unattractive. On a really fast processor a second level cache
miss is enough time to compute LOTS of floating-point stuff.
I am not sure this particular point is an issue for optimiztion, but
the general question is that the study and implementation of optimization
techniques these days is *VERY* much concerned with cache performance!
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1997-11-22 0:00 fixed point vs floating point Matthew Heaney
1997-11-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-11-23 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-11-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-24 0:00 ` Herman Rubin
1997-11-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-26 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-03 0:00 ` robin
1997-11-26 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
1997-11-24 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-11-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-11-25 0:00 ` John A. Limpert
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-24 0:00 ` Vince Del Vecchio
1997-11-24 0:00 ` Vince Del Vecchio
1997-12-03 0:00 ` robin
[not found] <9711221603.AA03295@nile.gnat.com>
1997-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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1997-11-27 0:00 tmoran
1997-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-29 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-11-28 0:00 tmoran
1997-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-02 0:00 Robert Dewar
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` robin
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-12-03 0:00 ` robin
2011-09-29 10:25 RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com
2011-09-29 10:49 ` AdaMagica
2011-09-29 13:38 ` Martin
2011-09-30 10:17 ` Stephen Leake
2011-09-30 16:25 ` tmoran
2011-09-30 16:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-01 11:09 ` Stephen Leake
2011-09-30 19:26 ` tmoran
2011-09-30 22:31 ` tmoran
2011-10-01 13:37 ` RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com
2011-10-02 14:19 ` Stephen Leake
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