On Friday 06 August 2010 10:34, Michał Nazarewicz wrote:
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> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:10:06 +0200, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 06 August 2010 00:38, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> >> This commit adds a test application for the put_dec() and
> >> family of functions that are used by the previous two commits.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
> >
> >> +put-dec-test: put-dec-test.c
> >> +	exec $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $<
> >
> > (1) Why exec?
> 
> Micro Makefile optimisation -- saves us a fork().
> 
> I'll try to fix the benchmark over the weekend and will post updated
> version.  Thanks for the comments.

You might find some ideas in the attached file:
* removed "correction" code
* added verification of correctness for put_dec()
* different rand64
  (old one was giving same "random" number surprisingly often)
* more robust coding in a few places

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vda