Re: Opportunities for numerical work on FreeBSD?

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 3:27 PM Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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



But stress-ng isn't a benchmark. It says so in it's docs. Also there are
several ifdef linux in the source to make it faster on linux.

I wouldn't waste my time on that garbage.

Warner

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