Ludovic, I'm not aware of anyone doing formal benchmarking of GSL routines. I myself have done some simple comparisons between GSL and LAPACK for some of the matrix factorizations, but I don't have any formal results to provide you. But I would be interested to see your results.
Patrick On 11/30/20 9:18 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > Patrick Alken <[email protected]> skribis: > >> Is there a particular part of the GSL library you want to benchmark? >> Some routines have been optimized to run as fast as possible while >> others have not. The overall focus of GSL algorithms is on robustness >> and reliability, not necessarily speed. So you will probably find quite >> different results depending which algorithms you are benchmarking. > I’m interested in benchmarking routines that benefit from vectorization > (AVX2, AVX512, etc.). > > Based on GCC’s ‘-fopt-info-vec’, this could be any of the following > components: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > bspline > bst > cdf > cheb > combination > complex > dht > diff > eigen > fft > filter > fit > histogram > integration > interpolation > linalg > matrix > min > monte > movstat > multifit > multifit_nlinear > multifit > multilarge_nlinear > multilarge > multimin > multiroots > multiset > ode-initval2 > ode-initval > permutation > poly > qrng > randist > rng > roots > rstat > sort > spblas > specfunc > splinalg > spmatrix > statistics > vector > wavelet > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > This is quite a long list, but really benchmarks for a couple of these > would already be helpful to me. > > For background, I’m currently looking into automatic “function > multi-versioning” where code is generated for several ISA extensions and > the right one is selected at load time¹. > > Thanks in advance! > > Ludo’. > > PS: Please keep me Cc’d as I’m not subscribed. > > ¹ https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/function-multi-versioning
