Maxime's micro allocation benchmark much faster ?
Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Mar 31 04:48:12 PDT 2015
oops - scratch that. may have made a mistake with versions and
be comparing 2.067 with some unstable dev version.
On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 11:46:41 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> I was curious to see if new DMD had changed speed on Maxime
> Chevalier-Boisvert's allocation benchmark here:
>
> http://pointersgonewild.com/2014/10/26/circumventing-the-d-garbage-collector/
>
> I haven't had time to look at the Phobos test suite to know if
> this was one of those that were included, but the difference
> seems to be striking. I am using two machines in my office -
> both of which are old x64 boxes running Arch Linux and are
> quite old (8 Gb RAM only). Same manufacturer and similar
> models so should be same spec CPUwise. Have not got time to
> install and compare different versions of dmd on same machine,
> so fwiw:
>
>
> 1mm objects
> -----------
> dmd 2.07 release: 0.56 seconds
> dmd 2.067-devel-639bcaa: 0.88 seconds
>
> ------------
> dmd 2.07 release: between 4.44 and 6.57 seconds
> dmd 2.067-devel-639bcaa: 90 seconds
>
>
> In case I made a typo in code:
>
> import std.conv;
>
> class Node
> {
> Node next;
> size_t a,b,c,d;
> }
>
> void main(string[] args)
> {
> auto numNodes=to!size_t(args[1]);
>
> Node head=null;
>
> for(size_t i=0;i<numNodes;i++)
> {
> auto n=new Node();
> n.next=head;
> head=n;
> }
> }
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