Re: [ViennaCL-devel] Mid-Term Evaluations

2013-07-31 Thread Toby St Clere Smithe
Karl Rupp r...@iue.tuwien.ac.at writes: Okay, so this shows ~150 us overhead for representing the types as in pyviennacl. Compared with a pure CPU-implementation, this is certainly a lot. However, when comparing this with OpenCL, then the overhead is actually not too bad and becomes

[ViennaCL-devel] PyViennaCL performance (was Re: Mid-Term Evaluations)

2013-07-31 Thread Toby St Clere Smithe
Hi Philippe, Philippe Tillet phil.til...@gmail.com writes: Well, it really depends on applications. 2**15 is actually still fairly small, since it is not exactly big enough to be bandwidth-limited (as opposed to kernel-launch overhead limited). I'd say considering the low bandwidth of PCI-E