[erlang-questions] native

[Tony Rogvall]

On 10 sep 2012, at 14:41, Thomas Lindgren <thomasl_erlang@REDACTED> wrote:

> 
>> I started playing with a simple implementation of MD5 (basically straight from the wiki page) 
>> When the implementation produce the correct output, I did some timing for fun and also
>> tried to native compile it. 
>> To my astonishment I discovered that the code was slower when native compiled.
>> I am using R15B01 on mac.  Can this be true? And in this case why? 
>> 
>> Note that I do not care to optimize the implementation it self! I am more interested why
>> the native compiler produce slower code on this example.
> 
> 
> On my Mac, the best native result 7% is faster than the best beam result. But the timing varies by 20% from run to run, so I think the proper claim is they are about the same. (I also think Hipe ought to comfortably beat Beam on this sort of code.)
> 
Good to know. On my computer all runs I have tried so far has been slower in native compile.
I could not believe my eyes.
So, everything is good then ? ;-)

/Tony

> Unfortunately, 'pp_native' gave broken/confusing output so it's hard to trace what happens. The arithmetic looks like it's being inlined, which ought to provide a boost. There are calls to r/1 and rotate/2 in the inner loop (md5_/6) which possibly should have been inlined.
> 
> Best,
> Thomas

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