Re: [Swarm-Support] AltiVec

[Bill Northcott]

I had a think about this and thought the obvious place to start would be 
the random number generators probably followed by list searching routines.

Really one should profile some existing apps on MacOS X and work from 
there.  One of Apple's recent developer DVDs had a really interesting 
session on video from last years Developer Conference on code optimisation 
and the tools available.  It goes into everything from Altivec to letting 
the air out of pipeline bubbles.

For tools, have a look at the CHUD package included with the Developer 
Tools but installed by default because it is being updated frequently.

Bill Northcott

> Could Swarm benefit from altivec optimization?  I know such changes
> would be architecture dependent, but that is easy enough to take care
> of with conditional compiling.

> What do people think, is the potential speedup worth the hassle?

> Sincerely,
> David

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