From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: The Ada Scalar, Vector, Matrix and Tensor arithmetic library?
Date: 1999/12/05
Date: 1999-12-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82en2v$ocj$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82e6pv$79q1@news.cis.okstate.edu
David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote in message
news:82e6pv$79q1@news.cis.okstate.edu...
> On 5 Dec 1999 15:34:20 GMT, Pascal Obry <pascal_obry@csi.com> wrote:
> >Right, I completly agree. We really want to make any abstraction
> >usable for a *human* and just let the compiler do its job.
> >
> >It cost less today to buy a new fastest machine than to jungle around
> >with the code in the hope to gain some percent of performance. It takes
> >a lot of time to tune the code and it is often a real nightmare to
maintain
> >this kind code.
>
> But in the aplications where vector and matrix libraries are used, this
> isn't always true. Sometimes, you need to do a simulation once or twice,
> because tomorrow's fastest machine and tomorrow's theories will call for
> a whole new simulation with different simplifications. But every 5% you
> shave off means a day or two in time saved each time it runs.
<snip>
Yes... but how many runs do you have to make with that 5% faster program
to make up for one bad run because the API was obtuse and the programmer got
it wrong, as a result?
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-04 0:00 The Ada Scalar, Vector, Matrix and Tensor arithmetic library? E. Robert Tisdale
1999-12-04 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-12-04 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-12-04 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-12-04 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-12-05 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-12-05 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-12-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
[not found] ` <01bf3f36$43ebbd50$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-12-05 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-12-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
1999-12-06 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-12-07 0:00 ` SIMD extensions in Ada :-(. Was: " Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Gautier
[not found] ` <01bf3f36$c5ad0e20$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-12-05 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-05 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-12-05 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-12-06 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-12-06 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-12-05 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-06 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
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