Low-level array performance

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008 22:37 schrieb Dan Doel:
> I'll attach new, hopefully bug-free versions of the benchmark to this
> message.

With -O2 -fvia-C -optc-O3, the difference is small (less than 1%), but today, 
ByteArr is faster more often.

>
> Of course, without the list overhead, the ByteArr appears to allocate much
> more than Ptr for large arrays, because the n*w byte array shows up in the
> heap allocation, whereas the malloced memory does not. None of this should
> be a factor in the actual fannkuch benchmark, of course, which only
> allocates 3 arrays of size 11.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Dan

Cheers,
Daniel