Faster compilation speed: cache behavior

Kai Henningsen kaih@khms.westfalen.de
Wed Aug 21 00:10:00 GMT 2002


mrs@apple.com (Mike Stump)  wrote on 20.08.02 in < CE111330-B490-11D6-90A6-000393941EE6@apple.com >:

> On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 03:45 PM, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > Does Apple's memset use dcbz?  I'm curious why memset should cause any
> > cache misses at all.
>
> The symbols mentioned are just one possible value of the pc within the
> millisecond (by default) when the sample was taken.   The sample

Uh, I thought they were the exact instruction that caused the cache miss,  
and this particular profile was *not* based on timed samples?!


MfG Kai



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