[10] RFR(S): 8187684 - Intrinsify Math.multiplyHigh(long, long)

[Andrew Haley]

On 20/09/17 14:08, Dmitrij Pochepko wrote:
> I've created a small JMH benchmark: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dpochepk/8187684/MultiplyHighBench.java to 
> test the improved performance and measured it on aarch64(t88, R-Pi) and 
> x86_64(i7-4770K). Benchmark shows about x2.5 improvement on aarch64 and 
> about x2 on x86_64

By the way, this benchmark:

        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
            op1 = Math.multiplyHigh(op1, op2++);
        }
        return Math.multiplyHigh(op1, op2);

measures the latency of the multiplyHigh, not the throughput, because
each iteration depends on the previous one.  I don't know if that was
your intent, but I would imagine we're more interested in throughput.
Fast processors can issue a mulh every few clock cycles, but their
latency may considerably longer.

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Andrew Haley
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