The long doubles may be a problem, but not the assembler. As it will only be for benchmarking MPIR, we can strip the assembler and replace it with C.
Long doubles are a problem on many platforms. But we can probably find a way around using them. Bill. 2009/6/6 Cactus <rieman...@googlemail.com>: > > > > On Jun 6, 8:35 pm, Jeff Gilchrist <jeff.gilchr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jason Moxham<ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com> >> wrote: >> > Jeff Gilchrist has a real world benchmark , ie something thats run for >> > purposes other than generating benchmarks. I would like to see a few of >> > these >> > in our benchmark suite. >> >> I would be happy to donate my code for that purpose. It isn't very >> complex, does a lot of these functions: >> mpz_mul() >> mpz_sub_ui() >> mpz_mod() >> >> So only uses a small subset of the mpir code base. >> >> There is another GPL program (not written by me) that heavily uses >> GMP/MPIR for doing primality tests (Fermat base2, Miller-Rabin, >> Lucas-Selfridge, Baillie-PSW) that might also be useful for a >> benchmark since you can just give it a range to work on and it will >> run a bunch of tests, good for benchmark timing >> (http://www.trnicely.net/misc/bpsw.html). > > This is interesting but it's not going to be easy to convert it to > Windows x64 because it uses several features that are not available > and not easy to provide. > > First it uses inline assember code, which is not available in Windows > x64. > > Secondly it uses long doubles via the x87 coprocessor, which won't be > easy to use from Windows and will, I think, need assembler support for > access in x64 mode. > > Brian > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
