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Hi there,
Does anyone know a fast method for checking if an array of floats are all equal to zero? Is there an assembly instruction for checking contiguous memory?
tia
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Yes.
A loop will likely be faster, though, on >= 586 CPUs.
Compare dwords, not floats (requires fcom, fnstsw, lahf => sloow), and unroll the loop. If the array is really big, think about checking qwords at a time; also, prefetch.
xor eax, eax
mov ecx, cnt
mov edi, buf
repz scasd
jnz not_all_0
A loop will likely be faster, though, on >= 586 CPUs.
Compare dwords, not floats (requires fcom, fnstsw, lahf => sloow), and unroll the loop. If the array is really big, think about checking qwords at a time; also, prefetch.
thanks for that.
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