Thomas Matthews said:
From what you have supplied us, the whole loop
can be optimized away since the value of "p"
is not used anywhere inside the loop nor outside
of the loop.
Another optimization is to remove the assignment
statement. The loop may be a timing loop and thus
neede d.
By the way, the argument to the sin function is
in units of radians and there no more than PI/2
radians in a circle. Any number larger than this
causes a modulo on the radians (extra work for
the sin function).
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Thank you for your reply...Sure, I understand what you are saying.
This is just a test code though. I actually had a like problem before.
So I want to see what could be the problem. The sin and p are not
important. I also used p outside the loop.
The whole code is:
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace std;
static struct timeval start;
static struct timeval now;
int main()
{
unsigned long t;
gettimeofday(&now, 0);
start = now;
double p;
int i;
for(i=0; i<100000000; i++){
//cout<<"sin("<<i<<") = "<<sin(double(i))<<endl;
p=sin(double(i));
}
cout<<p<<endl;
gettimeofday(&now, 0);
t = (now.tv_sec - start.tv_sec)*1000000
+ (now.tv_usec - start.tv_usec);
printf("time(seconds): %f\n", t/1000000.);
return 0;
The results are:
[Fri Aug 27]mathfun$ icc sin.cpp
[Fri Aug 27]mathfun$ ./a.out
0.809145
time(seconds): 8.138045
[Fri Aug 27]mathfun$ icc -axW sin.cpp
sin.cpp(18) : (col. 3) remark: LOOP WAS VECTORIZED.
sin.cpp(11) : (col. 1) remark: main has been targeted for automatic
cpu dispatch.
/opt/intel//include/c++/xlocale(442) : (col. 2) remark: LOOP WAS
VECTORIZED.
/opt/intel//include/c++/xlocale(438) : (col. 2) remark:
_ZSt10_MaklocstrIcEPT_PKcS1_RKSt7_Cvtvec has been targeted for
automatic cpu dispatch.
[Fri Aug 27]mathfun$ ./a.out
0.809145
time(seconds): 37.759714
Still don't know what could be the problem. Thanks.
