Commentary updates to SHA for sparcv9.

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Andy Polyakov 2007-05-10 06:48:28 +00:00
parent 160065c5bb
commit 0bd8d6e2e1
2 changed files with 19 additions and 8 deletions

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# ====================================================================
# Performance improvement is not really impressive on pre-T1 CPU: +8%
# over Sun C and +25% over gcc [3.3]. While on T1, ... And there
# is a gimmick. X[16] vector is packed to 8 64-bit registers and as
# result nothing is spilled on stack. In addition input data is loaded
# in compact instruction sequence, thus minimizing the window when the
# code is subject to [inter-thread] cache-thrashing hazard. The goal
# is to ensure scalability on UltraSPARC T1, or rather to avoid decay
# when amount of active threads exceeds the number of physical cores.
# over Sun C and +25% over gcc [3.3]. While on T1, a.k.a. Niagara, it
# turned to be 40% faster than 64-bit code generated by Sun C 5.8 and
# >2x than 64-bit code generated by gcc 3.4. And there is a gimmick.
# X[16] vector is packed to 8 64-bit registers and as result nothing
# is spilled on stack. In addition input data is loaded in compact
# instruction sequence, thus minimizing the window when the code is
# subject to [inter-thread] cache-thrashing hazard. The goal is to
# ensure scalability on UltraSPARC T1, or rather to avoid decay when
# amount of active threads exceeds the number of physical cores.
$bits=32;
for (@ARGV) { $bits=64 if (/\-m64/ || /\-xarch\=v9/); }

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#
# SHA512 on UltraSPARC T1.
#
# ...
# It's not any faster than 64-bit code generated by Sun C 5.8. This is
# because 64-bit code generator has the advantage of using 64-bit
# loads to access X[16], which I consciously traded for 32-/64-bit ABI
# duality [as per above]. But it surpasses 32-bit Sun C generated code
# by 60%, not to mention that it doesn't suffer from severe decay when
# running 4 times physical cores threads and that it leaves gcc [3.4]
# behind by over 4x factor! If compared to SHA256, single thread
# performance is only 10% better, but overall throughput for maximum
# amount of threads for given CPU exceeds corresponding one of SHA256
# by 30% [again, optimal coefficient is 50%].
$bits=32;
for (@ARGV) { $bits=64 if (/\-m64/ || /\-xarch\=v9/); }