[linux-audio-dev] Performance problems caused by dlopen()

[nick]

I keep hearing about how aligning XXX on XX boundaries (or similar)
gives huge performance increases etc..

Where's a good place to start finding out about these techniques?

-Nick

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 18:37, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 12:19:04 +0200, Anders Torger wrote:
> > Uhh... it seems to be totally unrelated to anything... just some 
> > spurious cache problem, sometimes, if the code is executed in a 
> > particular order, the memory layout is beneficial, sometimes it is not. 
> > dlopen seems to have nothing to do with it. I just have to live with 
> > it...
> 
> Yeah, I've seen this. If you look around on the web there is some code for
> cache aligning in x86's - I've never tried it though.
> 
> In the last plugin I was writing I got a huge perfomance increase by
> increasing the size of a ringbuffer, of course that was only in one host.
> 
> - Steve


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