Quoting Andrea Arteaga <[email protected]>:
For the interested on benchmarks, I wrote a proposal for writing a new
version of the BTL. You can read it on my blog: http://wp.me/pzWEm-99
The BTL is a benchmarking library written in C++ and maintained (now)
by the project Eigen. In my opinion it needs some changes, and the
article describes why and which ones. I'm waiting for feedback on the
proposal before coding anything.
There is a related area that would be of interest to me. It can be put under
benchmarks as well. So far, you have been looking into performance, I
am curious
about conformance and possibly precision benchmarking.
Does the library behave as it should. What is the accuracy of the result, do
some version of the libraries give more precise results than another
implementation.
This is particularly important to me because of the discussion we
generate here:
https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo/issues/3
and
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10508
where it is clear to me that it is due to something that gives a different
result in cblas from ATLAS-3.9 and it would be good to test this formally.
Francois
