Another empirical speed test

Mikey mikeythek at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 17:47:50 EST 2005


>    In other words, there's a 24% difference. It would appear that counting
> backwards carries a nontrivial overhead.
>    You may now return to your normal programming...

We actually spent several classes in both Microprocessors and Assembly
Languages trying to reduce the overhead associated with this before
finally figuring out in Compilers how to do it.
-- 
On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God  put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."


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