Heh, it helps if you set the clock speed in your profiler to 2.666 GHz
instead of 1.8GHz!!

Now the graph looks right:

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wbhart/flint-trunk/graphing/polymul3.png

This was a stupid mistake on my part. However it did allow me to
notice that sage.math is not being detected, so it had some use.

Bill.

2008/12/22 Jason Martin <jason.worth.mar...@gmail.com>:
>
> Well, I just got a new machine with Xeon E7450 processors in it.  The
> 7400 series are all using the Dunnington architecture, so I'll start
> looking into it as soon as I get the machine stable.
>
> Agner Fog doesn't have these new cores in his guides yet... probably
> he'll have them soon.
>
> Jason Worth Martin
> Asst. Professor of Mathematics
> http://www.math.jmu.edu/~martin
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> The performance of both the amd64 and core2 patches seems to suck on
>> this machine.
>>
>> Here is a graph of Magma vs FLINT at polynomial multiplication:
>>
>> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wbhart/flint-trunk/graphing/polymul.png
>>
>> The leftmost column of that graph is simply integer multiplication.
>> That's using the core2 patches. It's worse with amd64.
>>
>> It's not even clear to me what this machine should be classed as.
>>
>> No hints from gmp-4.2.2. It didn't build for me. I'll try a later version.
>>
>> Bill.
>>
>> 2008/12/22 Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com>:
>>>
>>> I just noticed that MPIR uses generic C for all functions on the new
>>> sage.math. It's has Intel Xeon(R) X7460 CPU's at 2.66 GHz, however
>>> config.guess says p6???-unknown-linux-gnu. As it doesn't recognise it,
>>> it builds without assembly support.
>>>
>>> Bill.
>>> >
>>>
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>

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