On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:18:34AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 12:33:15 +0000 > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > > Please provide carefully documented evidence of the performance gains > > that you are claiming, not handwaving. Evidence of a difference is not > > the same thing; anybody who has any experience with low-level > > programming knows that differences are as likely to cause a > > performance loss as they are to cause a gain. More so, in fact; it's > > easier to make code slower than it is to make it faster. > > > > We're all very interested in *real* evidence here, because there > > hasn't been any in the past. If you don't have any evidence, you can > > expect people to call bullshit on this. > > Andrew, i agree with you, its impossible to make programs run faster > just by making them to use different hardware instructions. Apparently you entirely fail to understand then, because that's not what I said. Please refrain from commenting on issues in a language which you cannot comprehend. The question is not whether or not it is possible to make programs run faster by changing the instructions. The question is whether or not *this particular* change makes them run faster. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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