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Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

Posted Jun 25, 2012 22:05 UTC (Mon) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths by mansr
Parent article: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

181.mcf doesn't sound like a toy benchmark to me:

"For the considered single-depot case, the problem can be formulated as a large-scale minimum-cost flow problem that we solve with a network simplex algorithm accelerated with a column generation. The core of the benchmark 181.mcf is the network simplex code 'MCF Version 1.2 -- A network simplex implementation', For this benchmark, MCF is embedded in the column generation process."
http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/CINT2000/181.mcf/docs/181.mcf...

In any case, if 181.mcf is so poorly written, perhaps someone could do us the favor of benchmarking other pointer intensive code instead of dismissing x32 without bothering to conduct a single relevant benchmark.


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