On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> 
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > 
> > That's the diff against 1.2.3, but it does not seem to make an substantial 
> > difference in my Opteron ...
> 
> But the "goto" stuff you did is 5-6%? 
> 
> Is that 5-6% of total git costs, or just of inflate() itself?

Didn't do proper cache warmup and test time was fairly short. Now I'm not 
able to notice substantial differences.
Hacked up test case below ...




- Davide



/* example.c -- usage example of the zlib compression library
 * Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jean-loup Gailly.
 * For conditions of distribution and use, see copyright notice in zlib.h
 */

/* @(#) $Id$ */

#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include "zlib.h"



#define CHECK_ERR(err, msg) do { \
	if (err != Z_OK) { \
		fprintf(stderr, "%s error: %d\n", msg, err); \
		exit(1); \
	} \
} while (0)




unsigned long long getustime(void) {
	struct timeval tm;

	gettimeofday(&tm, NULL);
	return tm.tv_sec * 1000000ULL + tm.tv_usec;
}


/* ===========================================================================
 * Test deflate() with large buffers and dynamic change of compression level
 */
void do_defl(Byte *compr, uLong *comprLen,
	     Byte *uncompr, uLong uncomprLen) {
	z_stream c_stream; /* compression stream */
	int err;

	c_stream.zalloc = (alloc_func)0;
	c_stream.zfree = (free_func)0;
	c_stream.opaque = (voidpf)0;

	err = deflateInit(&c_stream, Z_BEST_SPEED);
	CHECK_ERR(err, "deflateInit");

	c_stream.next_out = compr;
	c_stream.avail_out = (uInt) *comprLen;

	/* At this point, uncompr is still mostly zeroes, so it should compress
	 * very well:
	 */
	c_stream.next_in = uncompr;
	c_stream.avail_in = (uInt) uncomprLen;
	err = deflate(&c_stream, Z_FINISH);
	if (err != Z_STREAM_END) {
		fprintf(stderr, "whoops, got %d instead of Z_STREAM_END\n", err);
		exit(1);
	}

	err = deflateEnd(&c_stream);
	CHECK_ERR(err, "deflateEnd");

	*comprLen = c_stream.next_out - compr;
}

/* ===========================================================================
 * Test inflate() with large buffers
 */
void do_infl(Byte *compr, uLong comprLen,
	     Byte *uncompr, uLong *uncomprLen) {
	int err;
	z_stream d_stream; /* decompression stream */

	d_stream.zalloc = (alloc_func)0;
	d_stream.zfree = (free_func)0;
	d_stream.opaque = (voidpf)0;

	d_stream.next_in  = compr;
	d_stream.avail_in = (uInt)comprLen;

	err = inflateInit(&d_stream);
	CHECK_ERR(err, "inflateInit");

	d_stream.next_out = uncompr;            /* discard the output */
	d_stream.avail_out = (uInt) *uncomprLen;
	err = inflate(&d_stream, Z_FULL_FLUSH);
	if (err != Z_STREAM_END) {
		fprintf(stderr, "deflate should report Z_STREAM_END\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	err = inflateEnd(&d_stream);
	CHECK_ERR(err, "inflateEnd");

	*uncomprLen = d_stream.next_out - uncompr;
}


int main(int ac, char **av) {
	uLong i, n, clen, ulen, size = 8 * 1024 * 1024, range = 256;
	Byte *ubuf, *cbuf, *tbuf;
	unsigned long long ts, te;

	srand(1);
	ulen = size;
	clen = 2 * ulen;
	ubuf = malloc(ulen);
	tbuf = malloc(ulen);
	cbuf = malloc(clen);
	for (i = 0; i < ulen; i++)
		ubuf[i] = (Byte) (rand() % range);

	/* Warming up ... */
	do_defl(cbuf, &clen, ubuf, ulen);
	do_infl(cbuf, clen, tbuf, &ulen);
	if (ulen != size) {
		fprintf(stderr, "size mismatch %lu instead of %lu\n",
			(unsigned long) ulen, (unsigned long) size);
		return 1;
	}
	if (memcmp(tbuf, ubuf, size)) {
		fprintf(stderr, "whoops! we did not get back the same data\n");
		return 2;
	}
	/* Test ... */
	ts = getustime();
	n = 0;
	do {
		for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
			ulen = size;
			do_infl(cbuf, clen, ubuf, &ulen);
		}
		n += i;
		te = getustime();
	} while (te - ts < 2 * 1000000);

	fprintf(stdout, "us time / cycle = %llu\n", (te - ts) / n);

	return 0;
}

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