Re: [eigen] Cannot compile benchmark

Hi!

Some time ago I sent an email

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28711667

to the ATLAS and GotoBLAS/OpenBLAS lists regarding the Eigen benchmark

results. I am kind of surprised that this topic did not lead to a longer

discussion. The main issue seems to be that the benchmarks are not taken

seriously. But what Clint replied sounds like a really good idea to me:

"... then I would say the thing to do is to install them and ATLAS, and

use ATLAS's benchmarking tools to compare the two on as many platforms as

interest you. As long as they provide a standard BLAS and LAPACK API, you

can tell ATLAS to build a full timing report comparing the two

implementations directly."

A benchmark test that merely requires that library provide a BLAS interface

is much more transparent (and therefore more trustworthy).

Cheers,

Michael

Am 09.06.2012 um 14:30 schrieb Ilja Honkonen:

This has been fixed yesterday in changeset 73aa01cd5245.

Thanks, I ran the benchmarks with eigen 4646:e9efce779ca4, pdfs attached. GCC: 4.5.2, CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1075T 3 GHz, GotoBLAS: 2-1.13. In some of my results Goto is significantly faster than on the benchmark page http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Benchmark
Eigen results are about the same.

Ilja
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