Re: [ns] [PATCH] Linux performance patch

[Padmaparna Haldar <haldar@ISI.EDU>]

Thanks for your patch Tom. I'll try them out sometime.
and will add a pointer from ns' bug-fix page right away.

Thanks,
--Padma

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Tom Kelly wrote:


>
> Having done some relatively long running simulations, I've made up a patch
> against ns-2.1b7a containing some of my performance hacks. For the
> standard validate script they improved performance by around 20% on my
> Pentium III Linux box, and on some large scale simulations by up to 40%.
>
> The main win comes through being able to use the gcc -O2 flag on Linux
> without IEEE754 floating point incompatibilities, and through aggressive
> use of function inlining.
>
> The patch can be obtained via:
> http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ctk21/code/
>
> Hope people find it useful,
> Tom
>

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Padmaparna Haldar