On 15 January 2012 20:10, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@ubuntu.com> wrote:
On 15 January 2012 16:59, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 15 January 2012 06:56, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> I get a 2 to 2.5 speedup with the vector instructions on 64 bit Linux.
>> Anyhow, it's good enough now to play around with. Consider it alpha quality.
>> Expect bugs - but make bug reports, as there's a serious lack of source code
>> to test it with.
>
> I get 20+ speedup without optimisations with GDC on that small test. :)
>

Correction, 1.5x speed up without, 20x speed up with -O1, 30x speed up
with -O2 and above.  My oh my...

Oh my indeed.
Haha, well I'm sure that's a fairly artificial result, but yes, this is why I've been harping on for months that it's a bare necessity to provide language support :P