Subj : Re: sync vs. eieio on powerpc
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 07:17 pm

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:34 +0100, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:

>
> Joe Seigh wrote:
> [...]
>> It looks like I'll stick with eieio for the time being.
>
> See Book E. Don't miss Appendix D.
>
I think msync is an old power instruction or something.  gcc
won't compile it.

Fixed my timing program.  Timings are
eieio      23 nsec
sync       68 nsec
lwsync     68 nsec
isync      15 nsec

Some miscellaneous stuff
setjmp    3254 nsec
sigsetjmp 1626 nsec

Something funny going on with setjmp.


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Joe Seigh

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