From:	ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Loop unrolling: Don't bother
Date:	28 Feb 1997 03:51:15 GMT
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Reply-To:	ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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I have determined that loop unrolling produces very little speed gain.


A loop such as

register int i,j;
for (i=0; i<15; i++) {
  /* simple arithmetic */
  for (j=0; j<21; j++) {
    /* Function call and some math */
  }
  /* More math */
}

compiled with -O3 and a manually-unrolled loop (using macros) also
compiled with -O3 don't run at appreciably different rates.

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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh

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