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Old 17th June 2009, 23:50   #11  |  Link
Dark Shikari
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Of course it's measured on Nehalem and not on Core2 that everyone seems to love for reason that's beyond me.
Maybe because that's what they own? It will be years before the Nehalem has a higher install base than the Core 2.
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Modern CPUs taught me to believe only profiler when optimizing and not what you think is faster, so i'm not going to write something that "maybe better for Core2" when i have no means of confirming it by testing there.
Then ask someone for SSH access, there are billions of Core 2s.

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? The second version is only 10% faster (of course, on Nehalem again).
Try running the first set of code when you're not on a cacheline, and the second set when you are, perhaps?

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