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James Gregory 2013-12-30 18:34:31 +11:00
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@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ merely rearranged.
int *WorkingDataPointer;
struct BlockHeader **LastBlockPointer;
printf(”ID # for which to find average: “);
scanf(”%d”,&IDToFind);
printf("ID # for which to find average: ");
scanf("%d",&IDToFind);
/* Build an array across 5 blocks, for testing */
/* Anchor the linked list to BaseArrayBlockPointer */
@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ merely rearranged.
/* Remember where to set link from this block to the next */
LastBlockPointer = &WorkingBlockPointer->NextBlock;
}
/* Set the last block’s “next block” pointer to NULL to indicate
/* Set the last block's "next block" pointer to NULL to indicate
that there are no more blocks */
WorkingBlockPointer->NextBlock = NULL;
printf(”Average of all elements with ID %d: %u\n”,
printf("Average of all elements with ID %d: %u\n",
IDToFind, FindIDAverage2(IDToFind, BaseArrayBlockPointer));
exit(0);
}
@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ merely rearranged.
.code
public _FindIDAverage2
_FindIDAverage2 proc near
push bp ;Save caller’s stack frame
push bp ;Save caller's stack frame
mov bp,sp ;Point to our stack frame
push di ;Preserve C register variables
push si
@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ merely rearranged.
mov es,di
cld
mov si,[bp+BlockPointer] ;Pointer to first block
mov ax,[bp+SearchedForID] ;ID we’re looking for
mov ax,[bp+SearchedForID] ;ID we're looking for
sub dx,dx ;IDMatchSum = 0
mov bp,dx ;IDMatchCount = 0
;***stack frame no longer available***
@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ merely rearranged.
; Search through all the DataElement entries within this block
; and accumulate data from all that match the desired ID.
mov cx,[si+BlockCount]
jcxz DoNextBlock;Skip this block if there’s no data
jcxz DoNextBlock;Skip this block if there's no data
; to search through
mov bx,cx ;We’ll use BX to point to the
mov bx,cx ;We'll use BX to point to the
shl bx,1 ; corresponding value entry in the
; case of an ID match (BX is the
; length in bytes of the ID array)
@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ merely rearranged.
; (SCASW has advanced DI 2 bytes)
and cx,cx ;Is there more data to search through?
jnz IntraBlockLoop ;yes
; Point to the next block and continue if that pointer isn’t NULL.
; Point to the next block and continue if that pointer isn't NULL.
DoNextBlock:
mov si,[si+NextBlock] ;Get pointer to the next block
and si,si ;Is it a NULL pointer?
@ -147,18 +147,18 @@ merely rearranged.
; Calculate the average of all matches.
sub ax,ax ;Assume we found no matches
and bp,bp
jz Done ;We didn’t find any matches, return 0
jz Done ;We didn't find any matches, return 0
xchg ax,dx ;Prepare for division
div bp ;Return IDMatchSum / IDMatchCount
Done: pop si ;Restore C register variables
pop di
pop bp ;Restore caller’s stack frame
pop bp ;Restore caller's stack frame
ret
_FindIDAverage2 ENDP
end
The whole point of this rearrangement is to allow us to use **REP
SCASW** to search through each block, and that’s exactly what
SCASW** to search through each block, and that's exactly what
**FindIDAverage2** in Listing 8.6 does. The result: Listing 8.6
calculates the average about *three times* as fast as the original C
implementation and more than twice as fast as Listing 8.4, heavily
@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ optimized as the latter code is.
I trust you get the picture. The sort of instruction-by-instruction
optimization that so many of us love to do as a kind of puzzle is fun,
but compilers can do it nearly as well as you can, and in the future
will surely do it better. What a compiler *can’t* do is tie together the
will surely do it better. What a compiler *can't* do is tie together the
needs of the program specification on the high end and the processor on
the low end, resulting in critical code that runs just about as fast as
the hardware permits. The only software that can do that is located