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Re: [PATCH 00/26] ARM improvements
- From: Måns Rullgård <mans at mansr dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- Cc: libc-ports at sourceware dot org, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:41:45 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] ARM improvements
- References: <1361934986-17018-1-git-send-email-rth@twiddle.net>
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> writes:
> Patches 19-23 add improved string routines for armv6t2. I've had these
> hanging around for almost 2 years without properly submitting them.
> Which is perhaps a bit silly, but the A8 host I was originally doing
> testing on has a dreadfully low resolution clock, so it was hard to get
> real numbers. Whereas the A15 has a 1ns resolution CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW.
> I can post the benchmarks under separate cover if you like.
With a suitable kernel hack, you can access the cycle counter from
userspace on any ARMv7 device. This is probably more accurate and
avoids the syscall overhead.
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Måns Rullgård
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