On Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 4:15:09 PM UTC-5, Jiahao Chen wrote: > > Furthermore Vandermonde is not a good test with larger matrix sizes since > you are basically testing the speed of multiplying things by infinity, > which may not be representative of typical computations as it may incur > overhead from handling overflows. >
Yes, you normally don't want to benchmark floating-point exceptions. But that can be avoided just by making a Vandermonde matrix of zeros.
