On 7/1/20 12:30 AM, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> Hi, Hauke,
>
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 21:32, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>
>> Did you run a benchmark to test how much faster it is?
>
> I haven't done any performance testing, but I expect it to be a wash
> (improvements/regressions within around 2-3 % acr
Hi again, Hauke,
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 23:30, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
>
> There's no reason gcc 8 won't work fine too, the only snag we hit was
> with gas, and that's already fixed (see below). I'll test with gcc 8
> too, though, just to make sure (and 10, as soon as it hits master :)).
I just bu
Hi, Hauke,
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 21:32, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>
> Did you run a benchmark to test how much faster it is?
I haven't done any performance testing, but I expect it to be a wash
(improvements/regressions within around 2-3 % across the board). The
big win here is in the memory/icache
On 6/18/20 3:16 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> (Sending as RFC due to the note below.)
>
> The Thumb-2 instruction set generates denser code, allowing for more efficient
> use of the cache and consequently higher execution performance.
Did you run a benchmark to test how much faster it is?
> Vmlinu
(Sending as RFC due to the note below.)
The Thumb-2 instruction set generates denser code, allowing for more efficient
use of the cache and consequently higher execution performance.
Vmlinux (uncompressed) size comparison for my personal configuration (Linux
5.4.46, compiled with gcc 9.3.0 and bi
