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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:34:44 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn AT redhat DOT com>
Cc: Wayne Hayes <wayne AT cs DOT toronto DOT edu>, newlib AT sources DOT redhat DOT com,
   cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [wayne AT cs DOT toronto DOT edu: cygwin-1.5.5 sscanf on floats: 20 times slower than 2 years ago]
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:50:18PM -0500, J. Johnston wrote:
>J. Johnston wrote:
>>Wayne Hayes wrote:
>>
>>>>Since scanf and the floating point arithmetic is implemented in newlib,
>>>>I've redirected this message there.  Does anybody have an idea, what
>>>>could slow down float scanning in sscanf by a factor of 20?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks!  Just to be pedentic, I realized that it's worse than a factor 
>>>of 20.
>>>My *entire simulation* slows down by a factor of 20; there's significant
>>>other computation in it.  So the scanf slowdown is probably closer to
>>>hundreds of times.  *Something* fishy must be going on.  :-)
>>>
>>
>>The reason for the slow down is long double support.  A new routine 
>>_strtold is used instead of _strtod_r.  I am working on a patch to use 
>>the old routine for non-long-doubles to avoid the slow down.
>
>Patch checked in.

I'm generating a new snapshot now:  http://cygwin.com/snapshots.html .
It will be interesting to hear if this solves the problem.

Btw, would using hardware floating point help here at all?  I managed to
get newlib to build with hardware floating point earlier but I wasn't
sure what the consequences of doing that would be (other than the fact
that cygwin wouldn't work on a x386).

cgf

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