Research Article

An Empirical Investigation on System and Statement Level Parallelism Strategies for Accelerating Scatter Search Using Handel-C and Impulse-C

Table 6

Impulse-C results: comparison with Software Implementation.

Optimization version
(with respect to base)
Clock freq.
(MHz)
Average
cycles
Average
run time (s)
Speed up
(with respect to software)

Software 0.48278

Impulse-C Base (No Opt) 65.084 190388040 2.92527 0.16503

Loop Unrolling 67.72 129010702 1.90506 0.25341
Loop Pipelining 65.084 160753272 2.46994 0.19546