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[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Simon,

Monday, November 6, 2006, 1:54:44 PM, you wrote:

> I find the instruction counts and memory read/write counts from cachegrind are
> good things to compare, as a slightly more sensitive, but still deterministic,
> alternative to allocations.  Caveats apply of course - these figures are not
> always a good indicator for real world performance, but they are still a useful
> tool if you bear this in mind.

if this tool can do CPU cache modelling while counting memory
accesses, it may become rather exact measure. it should just check
that memory access is to same memory row (16/32) bytes that is among,
say, last 256kb accessed


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com