On 10/5/06, Chris <chris.boon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello, in my driver i have a buffer of 1000 entries which each entry is 9 bytes. at the moment my application reads 1 entry at a time in a while loop until the buffer is empty. what performance improvement can i make by reading for example 100 entries at a time?
For a start, I think you might be able to eliminate, partially, the penalty of misaligned memory access. But this depends on what you intend to do with those elements, if you are still processing them one at a time, then this might not be much help.
Chris.
Bhanu.
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