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Ian Rogers commented on RVM-341:
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There's specific coverage of using non-temporal stores and prefetching in section 9.7 of the Intel optimization manual:
http://www.intel.com/design/processor/manuals/248966.pdf> Improved copying in VM_Memory
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> Key: RVM-341
> URL:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM-341> Project: RVM
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Instruction Architecture: Intel, Runtime
> Reporter: Ian Rogers
> Fix For: 2.9.3
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> r13857 improved memory copying for Intel with SSE2 so that we used 64bit copies rather than 32bit copies. This gave a large number of speed ups:
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http://jikesrvm.anu.edu.au/cattrack/results/rvmx86lnx32.anu.edu.au/perf/1790/performance_report> most notably on SpecJBB 2000. There is a low-hanging fruit to improve this further, for example, by using 128bit copies and using more than 1 register to do the copying.
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