[Mono-list] Re: Time problems on Mono

[Paolo Molaro]

On 12/13/04 Martin Hansen wrote:
> > >   			for ( int n=0; n<=(1000* 1000 * 1000) ;n+=1 )
> > >   	  		{
> > > 				sum *= 1.0;
> > > 			}
> <cut>
> > Not meaning to flame but isn't that test a bit of a no brainer for 
> > performance issues, I mean its simply an aggressive loop that 
> > will take 
> > any langugage / platform a while to work through
> No there is some obvius places for an optimizer. Whithout any

Yep, we should remove mul by 1.0 (and also change mul by 2.0 with an 
addition, for example).
That said, as you point out, that benchmark is not one of the
most useful ones:-)

lupus

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