From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Optimize glyph row clearing and copying routines
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:40:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXojfwVaoqgnMFzbnVEn7nHxbUUZoCXtOs1iuTUpQB-Umuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a9j2iv6o.fsf@gnu.org>
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It is true that the standard's definition of memcpy is in terms of copying
a sequence of bytes. It is also true that memcpy is one of the most
important and most heavily optimized library functions.
These days any credible compiler has a means of determining that an
invocation of a function named 'memcpy' is actually an invocation of the
standard's memcpy. E.g. gcc's exposed memcpy is an inline whose body
simply calls __builtin_memcpy.
With such knowledge a compiler can bring to bear all kinds of
optimizations. Dmitry's measurements seem to bear this out.
/john
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> Does this change really speed up the code? AFAIU, previously the
> struct assignment could use word-size copies (because a struct is
> always aligned), but now you cast the arguments to 'char *' and use
> memcpy, which could fall back on copying single bytes or shorter
> words.
>
> Did you measure the impact? Was it significant enough to justify this
> change?
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-24 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 6:35 Optimize glyph row clearing and copying routines Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-24 10:10 ` Dmitry Antipov
2013-09-24 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-24 12:42 ` Dmitry Antipov
2013-09-24 13:40 ` John Yates [this message]
2013-09-24 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-24 17:28 ` John Yates
2013-09-24 18:03 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-24 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-26 12:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
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