I had the same problem going from 10.3 to 10.4 ...
In this case the problem was due to Accelerate not using "flush
denormals" anymore, but providing an IEEE compatible treatment of
denormals (which basically means that computation is made by the
scalar fpu). In other words, Accelerate would always turn the VE's
java Mode to ON, and it would NOT turn the mode back to the original
one.
In my case, I could get back to close the previous performance by
just explicitly turning java mode off after each call to accelerate
(as the rest of my code was hitting denormals more often than the
BLAS calls).
In this latter one, the text mentions that by default G5 (I presume
also G4 ?) have the default of handling denormals to OFF. Indeed this
is a bit misleading in the sense that this default will be changed as
soon as you call BLAS/LAPACK from Accelerate (as much as I experienced).
Le 28 nov. 07 à 20:32, Tim Schmielau a écrit :
After upgrading my iBook G4 from 10.3.9 to 10.5.1 (and XCode from
1.5 to 3.0) I noticed that my application's performance, which
depends almost exclusively on cblas_sgemv, has decreased by about a
factor of 10.
This is about the same factor that the benefit of using VecLib's
AltiVec enabled implementation was in the first time. In some
(rare) cases I had been able to regain the performance by switching
to a different SDK, but usually after a few compiles I'm back at
the slow speed.
Once compiled the application always runs at the same (fast or
slow) speed. I've checked that all arrays are fully aligned even in
the slow version.
My guess would be that sometimes a non-AltiVec enables BLAS library
gets compiled in - but where does it come from?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Tim
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