- 1.6-rc5: Background multitasking

From: [at]} <igor>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:35:41 +0300

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GJ> I have another observation, which looks strange to me. If in
GJ> the example given below I uncomment the following line (* one :=
GJ> 1.0; *), which just duplicates the previous command, the execution
GJ> time of the whole program drops by a factor of ~3. Is this because
GJ> the BB compiler is a non optimizing one? Or something is broken
GJ> here? I'm using Windows XP on a Pentium M CPU.

On some CPUs flooating point performance depends on data alignment.

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