Double prefetch on Windows
After fixing the cpu frequency with RightMark tool I was
able to test speed all the different prefetch combinations.
Here the results:
OS Windows Vista 32bit, MSVC compile
CPU Intecl Core 2 Duo T5220 1.55 GHz
bench on depth 12, 1 thread, 26552844 nodes searched
results in nodes/sec
no-prefetch
402486, 402005, 402767, 401439, 403060
single prefetch (aligned 64)
410145, 409159, 408078, 410443, 409652
double prefetch (aligned 64) 0+32
414739, 411238, 413937, 414641, 413834
double prefetch (aligned 64) 0+64
413537, 414337, 413537, 414842, 414240
And now also some crazy stuff:
single prefetch (aligned 128)
410145, 407395, 406230, 410050, 409949
double prefetch (aligned 64) 0+0
409753, 410044, 409456
single prefetch (aligned 64) +32
408379, 408272, 406809
single prefetch (aligned 64) +64
408279, 409059, 407395
So it seems the best is a double prefetch at the addres + 32 or +64,
I will choose the second one because it seems more natural to me.
It is still a mystery why it doesn't work under Linux :-(
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>