On Wednesday 04 March 2009 23:24:59 Bill Hart wrote:
> 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?
>

we use lshift1 rshift1 addlsh1 sublsh1 sumdiff redc_basecase 
we dont use divebyff
make check run tests for all these , but nothing in ./try



> 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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