Re: [Scilab-users] Pong contest

From an iMac macOS 10.15.5 (19F101): ...SCALAR RESULT: Mflops= 2.915 ; Pi ~ 3.141592 ...ARRAY RESULT: Mflops= 1.047 ; Pi ~ 3.141592 Model Identifier: iMac14,3 Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 3.1 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Co

Re: [Scilab-users] Pong contest

Hi Rafael ...SCALAR RESULT:  Mflops= 2.737 ;  Pi ~ 3.141592 ...ARRAY RESULT:  Mflops= 1.284 ;  Pi ~ 3.141592 The machine is a two-year old Lenovo T480, Core i7 8th Gen. Built-in Intel Graphics (no external card) /Claus On 07-06-2020 09:54, Rafael Guerra wrote: Hello Stéphane et al., Would

Re: [Scilab-users] Pong contest

Hi Rafael, Normally the use of some reliable/multi platform (sleep is not) synchronisation mechanism allows to have the same user experience regardless the actual hardware. Here we could aim at least 24 refreshs by second. But I am not sure that realtime() would be a better alternative. Maybe

Re: [Scilab-users] Pong contest

Hello Stéphane et al., Would it make sense in this “Pong contest”, in addition to the OS used, to also provide some sort of benchmarking of machine CPU? Fyi, find below simple test by Gershenfeld (1999), it computes Pi=4*atan(1) by two methods: Scalar test: Pi(N)~Sum{i=1:N; 0.5/((i-0.75)*(

Re: [Scilab-users] Pong contest

> Le 7 juin 2020 à 09:34, P M a écrit : > >  > nice. > > However on my win7 64bit Laptop the speed suddenly changes from very slow to > very fast and even back to slowso kind of unpredictable... > > probably a feature :-) Yeah, a (known) feature of sleep(). For the next release I will

Re: [Scilab-users] Pong contest

nice. However on my win7 64bit Laptop the speed suddenly changes from very slow to very fast and even back to slowso kind of unpredictable... probably a feature :-) Greetings Vir