Re: Opportunities for numerical work on FreeBSD?

On 6/18/24 12:31, Robert Clausecker wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have here a talented maths student looking for a place to
> complete her mandatory (unpaid) industry internship.
> 
> She has a knack for numerical analysis, differential equations,
> and writing floating point code.  I suggested that there might
> be need for some improvement to the math code currently shipped
> with FreeBSD as the old msun code, while very precise, is not
> writted to take advantage of modern SIMD FPUs with FMA support
> and could be improved considerably.
> 
> Is there an interest for such or other numerical work on the
> FreeBSD code base?  Would anybody be interested in supervising
> such work?  If yes, I would try to connect the two of you.
> 
> Yours,
> Robert Clausecker
> 

Coincidentally, I just came across a recent benchmark that might provide 
some hints about where to focus the efforts:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x

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