Hi Sean,
I have already sent you the tests; you requested. Just check in your mail
>
>
Seen the mail and downloaded the codes already.
>
> Got 'em! I've reviewed and revised... An updated version of the tests is
> posted and attached for you (or anyone else) to do a local comparison.
> You'll need an optimized compile of BRL-CAD (cmake
> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release) and will need to edit the Makefile to point to
> the header/lib dir and maybe change -rpath to -Wl,-rpath but it should
> otherwise be made to work easily.
>
ok will check that out tomorrow probably.
>What I'm seeing is a fair bit of variability from platform to platform,
but stable per environment. So far, I've tested on three wildly different
platforms: a Mac Core2, >a FreeBSD Xeon, and an IBM Power7 (PPC64).
>The new determinant function was actually 8% SLOWER on the Mac, but then
32% faster on FreeBSD and 4% faster on the Power7.
>The new inverse function was 11% faster on the Mac, 8% faster on the
FreeBSD, and a whooping 50% faster on Power7 (awesome!).
>The numbers were relatively stable +-2 percent and predominantly varied on
how many iterations were performed. In the tests, I made it so one can
either test for a set >amount of time or a fixed number of iterations.
Wow did not take the tests on these different systems since i don't have
all these. Well what i don't understand is why this is really slow on the
Mac.
Cheers!
Nyah
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