Re: Cost of XLogInsert CRC calculations

I tested crctest in two machines and two versions of gcc.

UltraSPARC III, gcc 2.95.3:
gcc -O1 crctest.c                       1.321517 s
gcc -O2 crctest.c                       1.099186 s
gcc -O3 crctest.c                       1.099330 s
gcc -O1 crctest64.c                     1.651599 s
gcc -O2 crctest64.c                     1.429089 s
gcc -O3 crctest64.c                     1.434296 s

UltraSPARC III, gcc 3.4.3:
gcc -O1 crctest.c                       1.209168 s
gcc -O2 crctest.c                       1.206253 s
gcc -O3 crctest.c                       1.209762 s
gcc -O1 crctest64.c                     1.545899 s
gcc -O2 crctest64.c                     1.545290 s
gcc -O3 crctest64.c                     1.540993 s

Pentium III, gcc 2.95.3:
gcc -O1 crctest.c                       1.548432 s
gcc -O2 crctest.c                       1.226873 s
gcc -O3 crctest.c                       1.227699 s
gcc -O1 crctest64.c                     1.362152 s
gcc -O2 crctest64.c                     1.259324 s
gcc -O3 crctest64.c                     1.259608 s

Pentium III, gcc 3.4.3:
gcc -O1 crctest.c                       1.084822 s
gcc -O2 crctest.c                       0.921594 s
gcc -O3 crctest.c                       0.921910 s
gcc -O1 crctest64.c                     1.188287 s
gcc -O2 crctest64.c                     1.242013 s
gcc -O3 crctest64.c                     1.638812 s

I think that it can improve the performance by loop unrolling.
I measured the performance when the loop unrolled by -funroll-loops
option or hand-tune. (hand-tune version is attached.)

UltraSPARC III, gcc 2.95.3:
gcc -O2 crctest.c                       1.098880 s
gcc -O2 -funroll-loops crctest.c        0.874165 s
gcc -O2 crctest_unroll.c                0.808208 s

UltraSPARC III, gcc 3.4.3:
gcc -O2 crctest.c                       1.209168 s
gcc -O2 -funroll-loops crctest.c        1.127973 s
gcc -O2 crctest_unroll.c                1.017485 s

Pentium III, gcc 2.95.3:
gcc -O2 crctest.c                       1.226873 s
gcc -O2 -funroll-loops crctest.c        1.077475 s
gcc -O2 crctest_unroll.c                1.051375 s

Pentium III, gcc 3.4.3:
gcc -O2 crctest.c                       0.921594 s
gcc -O2 -funroll-loops crctest.c        0.873614 s
gcc -O2 crctest_unroll.c                0.839384 s

regards,

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Atsushi Ogawa