Initializing Memory Efficiently on Power Architecture Platforms

Posted by idean on May 25, 2006 4:40 PM EDT
IBM; By Carlos Cavanna
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Learn to efficiently initialize memory on Power Architecture systems. Software Developer Carlos Cavanna compares simple loops clearing one bit at a time to more elaborate algorithms, including the dcbz instruction to zero whole cache lines at a time. The article concludes with some rough performance numbers to help you tune your own applications.

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