DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2007-06
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Re: implemented features (Re: Decision time....)
"km b" <kmb810@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Where is the generalisation? I said "my own code", which is what I'm
>> interested in.
>
>You're claiming that all 32-bit binaries are faster than 64-bit
>binaries based on your specific experiments which is nothing but
>generalization.
I made no claim about "all" binaries, and I claimed the exact opposite
of what you say I claimed for my own binaries: I said the 32-bit
binaries are 50% slower than the 64-bit binaries. (Eg, running time
25 secs for 64-bit, 38 secs for 32-bit.)
>> They are all 64-bit OSs (Linux or Solaris), but a 32-bit binary links
>> with 32-bit libraries. I don't see why you think the cache usage
>> would be worse for a 32-bit binary.
>
>Simple answer would be cache line size and how processor utilizes
>cache for given virtual address. You would see this effect more if
>you were just on the edge of thrashing the cache in 32-bit mode,
>64-bit mode would completely thrash.
You seem to be under the odd misconception that I'm claiming 32-bit is
faster. For my code (and other scientific code), 32-bit is *slower*.
And that can't be explained by thrashing cache -- as you rightly point
out, a 64-bit binary would be *more* likely to suffer such problems,
yet it's faster.
Please read mail properly before shooting off angry replies.
In fact I can believe that code that only uses 32-bit ints, but has
large memory requirements, would perform worse in 64-bit mode. But
the question is who cares about such code (indeed, how much such code
even exists that's speed-critical). The sort of job that takes hours
to run -- scientific, multimedia, etc -- would most certainly run
better in 64-bit mode.
Rahul
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