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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:17 pm 
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(From the company announcement http://www.codex.gr/article/libfreevec_103_released)
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After long hours of testing and debugging, CODEX releases libfreevec 1.0.3, get it here!

For benchmarks, check http://www.freevec.org/functions
Please feel free to report any bugs, performance gains (even losses :-)
Thanks!


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really really a great news!!
I'll go to test it on my iBook G4 :-D


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:52 pm 
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And here is the software that I used to create all the benchmarks.

http://www.codex.gr/article/benchsuite_102_released

Every function has its own testing/benchmarking software and you can configure the number of threads (yes, you can actually run the same test in parallel and measure the actual overhead), the number of loops, min/max sizes, test aligned/unaligned access, same/random data (random data access is much more realistic than an artificial benchmark clearing the cache each time) and other features.

The benchmark data are written on a SQLite database, so you can work on them afterwards any way you like!

Though developed for libfreevec, benchsuite is easily adapted to work with any function.
(perhaps I will include a small howto if there is demand).

Anyway, enjoy!


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Though developed for libfreevec, benchsuite is easily adapted to work with any function.
(perhaps I will include a small howto if there is demand).

Anyway, enjoy!
I hereby demand it :)

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Hi. Unfortunately I can't download this package :(Web-site www.codex.gr can not be found from my computer (but Google has cached pages from it) and also I can't find download section on freevec.org ...

Please advice where can I get these sources? Thank you!

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Hi. Unfortunately I can't download this package :(Web-site www.codex.gr can not be found from my computer (but Google has cached pages from it) and also I can't find download section on freevec.org ...

Please advice where can I get these sources? Thank you!

P.S. It looks like codex.gr was expired yesterday:
Hi,

Yes there was a problem with my registrar, though I had paid for the domain's renewal, they didn't actually do it, so the domain expired. It should be working ok now, so please try again in the same URL :)


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Hi. Unfortunately I can't download this package :(Web-site www.codex.gr can not be found from my computer (but Google has cached pages from it) and also I can't find download section on freevec.org ...

Please advice where can I get these sources? Thank you!

P.S. It looks like codex.gr was expired yesterday:
Hi,

Yes there was a problem with my registrar, though I had paid for the domain's renewal, they didn't actually do it, so the domain expired. It should be working ok now, so please try again in the same URL :)
Thanks! Link is working now :)

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:09 am 
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Thanks! Link is working now :)
Cool, I would really really appreciate any feedback on the library :)


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Thanks! Link is working now :)
Cool, I would really really appreciate any feedback on the library :)
I can't build benchsuit on my PowerBook G4...

cd libfreevec-1.0.3
configure
make
make install
ldconfig
cd ..

cd benchsuite-1.0.2
configure
make
Code:
bench_strncpy.o: In function `main':
/............./benchsuite-1.0.2/src/bench_strncpy.c:106: undefined reference to `vec_strncpy'
/............./benchsuite-1.0.2/src/bench_strncpy.c:106: undefined reference to `vec_strncpy'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [bench_strncpy] Ошибка 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Ошибка 1
make: *** [all] Ошибка 2
What do I do wrong?

Update: put /usr/local/lib/freevec to /etc/ld.so.conf (and ldconfig after that) doesn't help, only copy libfreevec.* from /usr/local/lib/freevec to /usr/local/lib helps...

Update 2: I have standard Debian 4.0 etch and I can't run sh-scripts from distribution, because of unknown option -executable that used for find, also with number of threads more than 1 sqlite3 can't write to database - so I edited script to avoid -executable and with threads number equals 1...

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Another question: Should random.dat consist of random data? On my system I have random.dat with zeros after running prepare_data.sh...

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Another question: Should random.dat consist of random data? On my system I have random.dat with zeros after running prepare_data.sh...
LOL,

I should have used /dev/random instead of /dev/zero in prepare_data.sh!!

Sorry about that, fixed in svn :)


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Another question: Should random.dat consist of random data? On my system I have random.dat with zeros after running prepare_data.sh...
LOL,

I should have used /dev/random instead of /dev/zero in prepare_data.sh!!

Sorry about that, fixed in svn :)
Could you please tell me SVN path to checkout this source code?
On svn://svn.codex.gr/trunk/benchsuite it's still /dev/zero

P.S. With random data (that was generated by simple C-program) test-strncpy is failed...

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Could you please tell me SVN path to checkout this source code?
On svn://svn.codex.gr/trunk/benchsuite it's still /dev/zero

P.S. With random data (that was generated by simple C-program) test-strncpy is failed...
Same repo, could you try again now? I removed the shell script (was taking ages to populate ~6MB of random data) and replaced it with a C file that is producing real random data that includes NO zero bytes (which were causing the test-strncpy test program to fail for obvious reasons, it was mistakingly copying data up to the wrong position). Now it reports success.

Also, I've added some -work in progress- test programs for some altivec math replacement functions that I'm working on (sinf, cosf, etc, replacements). These are still not committed in the libfreevec repo so the test will fail :-/

Thanks for the feedback, it's really appreciated :)


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Same repo, could you try again now? I removed the shell script (was taking ages to populate ~6MB of random data) and replaced it with a C file that is producing real random data that includes NO zero bytes (which were causing the test-strncpy test program to fail for obvious reasons, it was mistakingly copying data up to the wrong position). Now it reports success.

Also, I've added some -work in progress- test programs for some altivec math replacement functions that I'm working on (sinf, cosf, etc, replacements). These are still not committed in the libfreevec repo so the test will fail :-/

Thanks for the feedback, it's really appreciated :)
Also I noticed that sometimes you use random() that is not ANSI standard instead of rand() and INT_MAX and CHAR_MAX instead of RAND_MAX. And why in strcmp reported alighnments are -1 and 0?

P.S. Now all tests are passed ;)

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Also I noticed that sometimes you use random() that is not ANSI standard instead of rand() and INT_MAX and CHAR_MAX instead of RAND_MAX.
Fixed thanks again :)
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And why in strcmp reported alighnments are -1 and 0?
Where exactly do you mean?


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