Align a variable on the stack.
Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Nov 6 03:37:20 PST 2015
Ok, benchA and benchB have the same assembler code generated.
However, I _can_ reproduce the slowdown albeit on average only
20%-40%, not a factor of 10.
It turns out that it's always the first tested function that's
slower. You can test this by switching benchA and benchB in the
call to benchmark(). I suspect the reason is that the OS is
paging in the code the first time, and we're actually seeing the
cost of the page fault. If you a second round of benchmarks after
the first one, that one shows more or less the same performance
for both functions.
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