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Example of POSIX memalign in C
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#include <stdio.h> | |
#include <stdlib.h> | |
#include <time.h> | |
#define SIZE 1000000 | |
typedef struct { | |
float *x; | |
} test_s; | |
void add(float * restrict a, float * restrict b, float * restrict c) | |
{ | |
size_t i; | |
for (i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i) { | |
c[i] = a[i] + b[i]; | |
} | |
} | |
int main() | |
{ | |
clock_t t0, tf; | |
float *a = NULL, *b = NULL; | |
float *Aa = NULL, *Ab = NULL; | |
test_s *C, *AC; | |
a = (float *)malloc(sizeof(float) * SIZE); | |
b = (float *)malloc(sizeof(float) * SIZE); | |
C = (test_s *)malloc(sizeof(test_s)); | |
C->x = (float *)malloc(SIZE * sizeof(float)); | |
posix_memalign((void *)&Aa, 128, SIZE * sizeof(float)); | |
posix_memalign((void *)&Ab, 128, SIZE * sizeof(float)); | |
posix_memalign((void *)&AC, 128, sizeof(test_s)); | |
posix_memalign((void *)&AC->x, 128, SIZE * sizeof(float)); | |
t0 = clock(); | |
add(a, b, C->x); | |
tf = clock(); | |
printf("Non-aligned array: %lf\n", ((double)(tf - t0) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC)); | |
t0 = clock(); | |
add(Aa, Ab, AC->x); | |
tf = clock(); | |
printf("Aligned array: %lf\n", ((double)(tf - t0) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC)); | |
free(a); | |
free(b); | |
free(Aa); | |
free(Ab); | |
free(C->x); | |
free(C); | |
free(AC->x); | |
free(AC); | |
return 0; | |
} |
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