Subj : Re: SM: Performance testing script
To   : ggadwa@charter.net
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Wed Aug 25 2004 06:02 pm

ggadwa@charter.net wrote:
> I'm getting close to the actual, believe-it-or-not release of my game 
> engine with SM.  So, I'm doing the last minute performance tuning.  
> While I'm not playing with the code itself, I am playing with gcc 
> optimizations.  I've created a little test app that runs the same script 
> (a lot of loops in loops) over and over and averages out the results, so 
> I can test each compile I try.
> 
> SM seems *really* antzy about certain optimizations.  Some really slow 
> it down, others speed it up slighty (optimizations are always this type 
> all always a guessing game.)

Can you show your script, and say which gcc options seem to cause 
slowdowns, and which speedups?

/be

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