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Message-ID: <20111024082823.GA18887@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:28:23 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Benchmarks vs GCC version
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:21:24PM -0400, Erik Winkler wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:48:08PM -0400, Erik Winkler wrote:
> >> Why is the gcc 4.2.1 code significantly faster than the 4.6.1 code? Is it because of the SSE2 intrinsics code used with gcc 4.6.1?
> >
> > Maybe, but this was not supposed to be the case. I might do some more
> > testing with gcc 4.6.1 specifically. However, in current CVS tree, the
> > use of intrinsics has been disabled for another reason anyway. You can
> > try this trivial patch too:
>
> Yes, that was the issue. See new benchmarks below using gcc 4.6.1 after I applied the patch to x86-64.h.
Thanks! So, I tested with gcc 4.5.0 vs. 4.6.1 now. I confirm that
there's a 25% slowdown for the SSE2 intrinsics code when going from
4.5.0 to 4.6.1. To partially cure it, add -fno-unit-at-a-time to
OPT_INLINE. Apparently, gcc 4.6.x just tries too hard to optimize those
functions with the S-box functions inlined into them, and it fails at
that. :-( With gcc 4.5.0, adding this option makes little difference.
Of course, switching to hand-written assembly code is another valid
cure, but for OpenMP builds we currently/still use the intrinsics. So I
think I'll have to add -fno-unit-at-a-time to OPT_INLINE or to proposed
OMPFLAGS (for gcc) in the next release.
Alexander
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