Increasing D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 02.08.2013 18:37, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/2/2013 2:47 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> My disassembly looks exactly the same. I don't think that a single div
>> operation
>> in a rather long function has a lot of impact on modern processors.
>> I'm running
>> an i7, according to the instruction tables by Agner Fog, the div has
>> latency of
>> 17-28 cycles and a reciprocal throughput of 7-17 cycles. If I estimate
>> the
>> latency of the asm snippet, I also get 16 cycles. And that doesn't
>> take the
>> additional tests and jumps into consideration.
>
>
> I'm using an AMD FX-6100.
>

This processor seems to do a little better with the mov reg,imm 
operation but otherwise is similar. The DIV operation has larger 
worst-case latency, though (16-48 cycles).

Better to just use a power of 2 for the array sizes anyway...