Re: Stack vs stackless operation

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
Another variant:
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: exchange ( addr1 addr2 -- )
   dup @ rot !@ swap ! ;
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This uses the primitive
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'!@' ( u1 a-addr -- u2 ) gforth-experimental "store-fetch"
  load U2 from A_ADDR, and store U1 there, as atomic operation
>
I worry that the atomic part will result in it being slower than the
versions that do not use !@.

It's barely noticable on Zen4, but it makes a big difference on the
Cortex-A55.  Therefore we decided to also have a nonatomic !@.  We renamed the atomic one into ATOMIC!@ and !@ is now the nonatomic version.

How do they perform?

On Zen4:
      !@          atomic!@
  821_538_216    880_459_702  cycles
3_815_202_629  3_710_937_849  instructions

On Cortex-A55:
   !@        atomic!@
3355427045  5856496676  cycles                                                     
3115589778  4318749543  instructions

- anton
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