Re: [linux-audio-dev] Performance problems caused by dlopen()

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Performance problems caused by dlopen()
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 20:37:33 EEST


On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 12:19:04 +0200, Anders Torger wrote:
> Uhh... it seems to be totally unrelated to anything... just some
> spurious cache problem, sometimes, if the code is executed in a
> particular order, the memory layout is beneficial, sometimes it is not.
> dlopen seems to have nothing to do with it. I just have to live with
> it...

Yeah, I've seen this. If you look around on the web there is some code for
cache aligning in x86's - I've never tried it though.

In the last plugin I was writing I got a huge perfomance increase by
increasing the size of a ringbuffer, of course that was only in one host.

- Steve


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