Varying performance of MSVC release exe
I am curious what could be the reason for highly varying performance of the same executable. Sometimes, I run it and it takes 20 seconds and sometimes it is 110. Source is compiled with MSVC in Release mode with standard options.
The code is here:
vector<double> Un;
vector<double> Ucur;
double *pUn, *pUcur;
...
// time marching
for (old_time=time-logfreq, time+=dt; time <= end_time; time+=dt)
{
for (i=1, j=Un.size()-1, pUn=&Un[1], pUcur=&Ucur[1]; i < j; ++i, ++pUn, ++pUcur)
{
*pUcur = (*pUn)*(1.0-0.5*alpha*( *(pUn+1) - *(pUn-1) ));
}
Ucur[0] = (Un[0])*(1.0-0.5*alpha*( Un[1] - Un[j] ));
Ucur[j] = (Un[开发者_JAVA技巧j])*(1.0-0.5*alpha*( Un[0] - Un[j-1] ));
Un = Ucur;
}
EDIT
Sorry not to mention input data. The vectors Un and Ucur are initialized to 2000 elements with value 0. No data is read/written. No interaction with console. When I say sometimes I run it means that I have console open, no other applications running , processor throttling disabled. I keep executing application after it finishes. I guess it has to do with caching or something like that but I am not good on low-level things.
I would guess this is because you are loading a large amount of data from a storage device. If there is a lot of contention for the storage device then things will run more slowly as your software needs to wait its turn to do some loading.
Issue was resolved when I switched the arguments in this function from addresses to variables.
Before I had double &time, double &dt, double &end_time
Now: double time, double dt, double end_time
It appears to be memory-related issue... Hope, it helps anybody
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