`Reconsidering Custom Memory Allocation`

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 September 2014 at 09:43:41 UTC, eles wrote:
> On Monday, 15 September 2014 at 09:26:37 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> Yesterday I stumbled upon this excellent research paper:
>
>> gave insights into the reasons why general purpose allocators 
>> can outperform handcrafted ones.
>
> Well, the same was believed about the ASM vs C or C++ 
> compilers. This too was infirmed, at least at global scale, 
> with time. Very specialized applications would still perform 
> better when in ASM (I believe).

Only when exploring vector instructions or when targeting simple 
processors.

I seriously doubt someone can hold the Haswell ISA in their head 
as we did back when targeting the Z80, 6800, 80x86 (up to 
Pentium) and similar.

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Paulo