Update to cube root benchmark code

2007-03-06 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Stephen, Thanks for this code, it's easy to experiment with it. Let me propose this simple update with a variation on your ncubic() function. I noticed that all intermediate results were far below 32 bits, so I did a new version which is 30% faster on my athlon with the same results. This is be

cube root benchmark code

2007-03-06 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Here is a better version of the benchmark code. It has the original code used in 2.4 version of Cubic for comparison --- /* Test and measure perf of cube root algorithms. */ #include #include #include #include #include #ifdef __x86_64