Re: [Valgrind-users] Preliminary little speedup patch (seen 7% speedup)

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Christian Leber wrote:

> > So I'm mystified where the 7% speedup number comes from.
>
> Yes, absolutly, it's very obscure.
>
> Some little changes decresed the performance again, damn, I fooled
> myself.
>
> It could be some alignment effect.
> So perhaps this stupid 7% are also only on athlon-xp's.
>
> But I don't know how to analyse what function takes how long, than it
> should be easy to find the function were this difference is.

If you #include "profile.c" into a skin and recompile, the --profile=yes
option turns on tick-based profiling.  That's where Julian got his 0--15%
figure for translation from (note that's for all translation).

N