Re: new version of MAD

[Steef Boerrigter <sxmboer sci kun nl>]

Hi Bjorn Eriksson,



>  Using realloc sounds nice. And a hash table would be really nice.
> (Well, hash tables can't be resized efficiently but I don't think that
> would pose a problem.)
You mean using a hashing table would be nice to tackle the slooooowness
of MAD when it goes over ~10000 handles?


> > - Support for SGI Indy (and probably more RISC and or MIPS platforms)
> > which need 8 byte aligned blocks for double variables.
>  Sounds useful.
Mad crashes on the very first alloc. So useful is an understatement.
"Vital" is more appropriate ;-)

>  All processors in the x8[68] family can read 16-bit WORDs (and larger
> quantities) on an arbitrary offset but reading a 16-bit WORD that
> straddles a BYTE boundary requires the processor to do two separate
> reads. (And this hurts even though it actually reads a whole cacheline
This is useful information. I conclude from it that even on the intel
architecture alignment is desired if we want to improve the speed of our
program being debugged.


>  The 'diff -u' files would be usefull. Or if you could give us the exact
> version you changed so everyone could do the diff herself.

Uh oh, didn't you get the mad-new.[ch] as attachments?

In that case either my mailer is sick or the attachments are cut off by
the mailing list handler.

Regards,

Steef

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