[PD] array copy speed test
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Mon Jul 31 23:13:16 CEST 2006
On Jul 31, 2006, at 2:01 AM, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> hi hans,
>
> On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:23 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> So I did a little speed test between C and Pd for doing an array-to-
>> array copying. Pd didn't fair so well. Can anyone thing of a better
>> algorithm for copying in Pd?
>
> well, as pd is a purely interpreted language, i doubt that you can
> improve it without writing a compiler for pd patches ... and even
> then ... if you'll have overhead for stack management and message
> handling ...
> a pure c or even simd implementation will always be way faster ...
Anyone feel like SIMDifiying [arraycopy] (hint hint ;). I suppose
vasp is a SIMD version of [arraycopy].
.hc
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