Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/sgcc2.9.5)

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I've not looked at 3.3, but I seem to recall that GCC 3.2 :did not actually align the stack within each function, but :preserved the alignment. (That is, each function assumed the stack :had a certain alignment on entry and ensured that alignment :was preserved for any subsequent function calls.)

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/sgcc2.9.5)

2004-02-16 Thread Tim Kientzle
Matthew Dillon wrote: I'm surprised Bruce hasn't chimed in here yet. I guess he's tired of repeating himself. In 4.9, libcsu, which generates crt1.o (which is the start code for C programs which the linker links in automatically) has this line in it: andl$~0xf, %%esp

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/sgcc2.9.5)

2004-02-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
I'm surprised Bruce hasn't chimed in here yet. I guess he's tired of repeating himself. In 4.9, libcsu, which generates crt1.o (which is the start code for C programs which the linker links in automatically) has this line in it: andl$~0xf, %%esp# align

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/sgcc2.9.5)

2004-02-16 Thread Juan Tumani
"Juan Tumani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I patched in the patch shown below and it didn't fix the problem, it > only changed the frequency of the spikes to 32 on/off. try replacing 0x1F with 0x3F in the patch and see what happens. That seems to work in that it flattens the line out. Not sure w

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/sgcc2.9.5)

2004-02-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Juan Tumani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I patched in the patch shown below and it didn't fix the problem, it > only changed the frequency of the spikes to 32 on/off. try replacing 0x1F with 0x3F in the patch and see what happens. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/sgcc2.9.5)

2004-02-16 Thread Juan Tumani
ience with the kern pacthed on your system? JT From: Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav),Alexandr Kovalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Juan Tumani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS p

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/sgcc2.9.5)

2004-02-16 Thread Juan Tumani
; CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Juan Tumani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/sgcc2.9.5) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 03:52:16 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mx2.freebsd.org ([216.136.204.119]) by mc9-f9.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5