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From: Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 01:20:09
Message-Id: 20070530201153.5496d3f7@pascal.spore.ath.cx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf? by Denis
1 On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:26:32 -0400
2 Denis <denis.che@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On 5/25/07, Andreas Claesson <andreas.claesson@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > Since you (Denis) are doing a lot of mathematical calculations you
6 > > will probably benefit from running in 64bit mode.
7 >
8 > I often need to run Monte Carlo simulations (in C) which involve a lot
9 > of array storage and array scanning/searching operations... I wonder
10 > what the speed-up would be for those simulations if run under a 64-bit
11 > mode. Are there any requirements on how the simulations should be
12 > programmed in order to take advantage of the 64-bit arch, or is that
13 > automatically done by the GCC compiler and the kernel?
14
15 Would you mind telling us what kind of performance difference you
16 experience?
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