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- From: jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Compiler groups working on real apps? (was Re: Fast I/O)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.003639.13681@craycos.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 00:36:39 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.081105.4047@molene.ifremer.fr> <1993Jan22.193019.12936@news.eng.convex.com> <C19wHr.GF3@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C19wHr.GF3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi) writes:
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- >This is probably too much to ask. But I am wondering. Maybe any one of
- >us (users) could spend some time in putting together some "typical" code,
- >containing a simplified version of the loops where our programs spend
- >most of the time. Staying within, say, 100 lines. These "test cases" could
- >be posted on c.l.f. (and stored at some anon ftp site) and compiler developers
- >could have a look at them and perhaps improve the compilers.
- >
- >These typical loops could perhaps also be coded as self-contained
- >benchmarks a-la-Linpack, inducing a bit of competitiveness :-),
- >helping us to understand better the strengths and weaknesses of the
- >various architectures, but not necessarily so.
- >
- >Any comment?
-
- You've just described the Livermore Loops.
-