Is there a test for lshift1, rshift1, addlsh1, addrsh1, addadd,
addsub, sumdiff, divebyff or redc_basecase?

Do we need tests for these?

I know we use addadd and addsub. Do we use any of the others yet?

Bill.

2009/3/4 Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com>:
> 2009/3/4  <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com>:
>>
>> On Wednesday 04 March 2009 22:40:18 Bill Hart wrote:
>>> I'd like to propose a code freeze on all K8/K10 assembly code, which I
>>> have now converted to yasm format, unless serious bugs are uncovered.
>>>
>>> If we freeze the code then we can begin testing. I propose we wear out
>>> each and every file with /tests/devel/try including many small
>>> operands and as many different types of data as try can throw at it.
>>>
>> There no point both of us running the same test on cuda1 say , so who does
>> which machine?
>
> I am currently running tests on a K8.
>
> Do you want to do cuda?
>
> That will be enough.
>
> Let me just check that:
>
> wbh...@host-57-44:~/mpir-trunk/tests/devel$ ./try -s 1-50 -r 10 -S
> 1-50 mpn_blah blah blah
>
> does something sensible according to you?
>
>>
>>> On my machine the K8 code gets a bench of 15283 which is what it got
>>> before the conversion. Also on K10 I did cycle timings of all the
>>> functions we care about and they did not change (to within tolerances
>>> due to variations between runs of course).
>>>
>>> I'm inclined to finish the core 2 code conversion tomorrow, do some
>>> cleaning up of the C code (insert some whitespace :-)) and then
>>> release 1.0.0. It's just about as much work as releasing 0.9.1.
>>>
>>
>> wasting precious bytes with whitespace :)
>
> Now we know what is causing that 2 Trillion dollar debt!!
>
>>
>> I thought I ran my C-code thru indent first , to use the standard format ,
>> perhaps I missed some files. I really find difficult to believe that people
>> read code formated with the standard amount of whitespace , I'm forever
>> scrolling up and down to try to see the rest of the function.First thing I do
>> when reading code now is to delete most whitespace.
>
> Maybe I won't have much to do. I did see some code the other day that
> I would instinctively do some things to however. It's just a knee-jerk
> reaction.
>
> I used to despise whitespace too. However I did change my mind after
> certain other programmer told me my code was sending them crosseyed.
> Now I like the sense of peace that one gets from the whitespace. It's
> like having a spacious office as opposed to clutter. Obviously I
> accept it is a matter of preference and irrelevant in the scheme of
> things. However I have observed that the majority tend to go for
> space.
>
>>
>>> By the way, make check still runs the yasm tests.
>>>
>>
>> It was quite a job do disable all the tests , so I left it , as it doesn't
>> effect the correctness
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> That's fine. No problem by me.
>
> Bill.
>

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