On 21.02.2005, at 19:07, Jay Cox wrote:
I'm not sure what system the benchmark is being run on, but the cache
line size on a P4 is 128Byes (most other systems have smaller cache line
sizes). A simple test to see if this is the problem would be to change
the tile allocation code to allocate an extra 128 bytes of memory per
tile. See app/base/tile.c line 221
Dual Opteron.
I think it would be a good idea to get some timings from some other operations also. Perhaps painting with a large brush, or flattening a complicated image.
Sven, what procedures are currently "parallelized"?
Servus,
Daniel
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