Benchmarks

This directory is used to perform benchmarks on LinBox. More...

Files
file	benchmark-crafixed.C
	Benchmarking fixed CRA routines.
file	benchmark-fgemm.C
	Benchmarking dense matrix multiplication on finite fields.
file	benchmark-ftrXm.C
	Benchmarking triangular matrix multiplication on finite fields.
file	benchmark.h
	Common header to ease benchmarking routines.

Detailed Description

This directory is used to perform benchmarks on LinBox.

The benchmarks are meant for :

• the user to guide her through the various choices of algorithms/implementation provided in her particular case.
• the developper to test her new algorithms against the others or check that the newest shiny subroutine she just wrote didn't deteriorate too much the performance of LinBox :) (regression testing purpose).

Benchmarks can be grouped in :

• basic routines (fflas/ffpack, integer operations,...) ;
• algorithms ;
• solutions.

When another free library (NTL, IML,...) provides a routine that exists in LinBox, we want to be able to compare it to our implementation.

Default parameters can be changed on the command-line, just as in examples/ and tests/.