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Subject: Re: what's this "SMP time-to-ply measurement" ? (NT)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:38:07 09/04/02

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On September 04, 2002 at 14:35:53, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On September 03, 2002 at 11:13:02, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 02, 2002 at 02:11:54, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>.
>>
>>
>>It is something written by Jason Deines a few years ago.  It is basically
>>an estimate of SMP efficiency, although I am not sure it is really very
>>meaningful.
>>
>>It is computed as follows:
>>
>>(640.0 / (total_time_used / 100))
>>
>>which means bigger numbers are better.  640 probably comes from some
>>machine Jason used while modifying bench.c, and I would suspect it
>>represents some "factor" of overall speedup compared to that machine,
>>whatever it was...
>>
>>But as total-time-used shrinks, the above computation will produce larger
>>and larger values...  I will probably change the computation to produce
>>something more meaningful, such as "average speedup" or something similar...
>
>
>Pardon my math, but isn't that just 64000/total_time_used?

yep.  As I said, I don't know what the significance of the 640/64000 is.
But that simply came right out of the bench.c source cod...




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