On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 16:57 -0400, Ian Rogers wrote: > In terms of performance I just tried sorting an array of floats with the > new code (floatAsIntBits should have been floatToIntBits, sorry). The > test was to initialize an array of floats backwards and then sort it to > be ascending. Running a large enough array and enough iterations to get > a ~4 second run, using the Jikes RVM's optimizing compiler, the speed up > was around 7.77% on a Pentium 4 Linux box. Hi Ian! Could you try that also on an Athlon box? As I can remember significant performance differences on these two implementations. I/you could also try the different Java implementations with CACAO on different architectures. Although we don't optimize that much as JikesRVM. - twisti
