From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Mon Dec 07 1998 - 03:02:41 EST
On Dec 6, 1998, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I ran the tests on a dedicated test machine to minimize such problems.
> Pat is currently running tests for his thesis, and he discovers similar
> phenomena
And so did I :-(
> I already mentioned one possible reason: the non-alignment of branch targets.
Yep, it may cause large differences WRT to internal caches of the
processors too.
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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