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From: kym@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: int x int -> long for * (or is it 32x32->64)
Keywords: arithmetic,arbitrary precision,benchmark,modular arithmetic
Message-ID: <4015@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 14 Sep 90 13:46:24 GMT
References: <3984@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <41425@mips.mips.COM> <119977@linus.mitre.org> <3759@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Reply-To: kym@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell)
Organization: SUNY Binghamton, NY
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In article <3759@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>					User	System	User ratio
>Horsell	(16 x 16 -> 16, C code)		311.2	1.9	1.36 slower
>Horsell (32 x 32 -> 32, C code)		228.8	2.6
>My code (32 x 32 -> 64, assembly)	 52.6	0.5	4.35 faster

Could you please include a few more numbers in a followup post?
I guess you were trying to save b/w, but it didn't work.

-Kym Horsell