I posted this PR a few days back. It gets test/perf/micro running again on julia-0.7.0. It’s a few Makefile changes for libraries that have moved in the julia source tree since 0.4.0.
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/23922
A few things/decisions remain before producing new benchmark data for publication:
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Getting Fortran to call BLAS. I tried @Ralph_Smith’s suggestion above but got utterly horrific rand_mat_mul results (~100 times slower). I need to double-check that I linked to the correct -lblas, or that there wasn’t some problem in the interface with wrong integer size.
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Getting R, Python, and Octave to call BLAS for rand_mat_mul. It looks like that’ll require recompiling and relinking these packages (instead of using my non-BLAS default packages on openSUSE). I’m not keen on doing this, and I’m not sure it’s fair.
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Investigate slowness of mandel on C compared to Java, Javascript, and Lua. I’d welcome help here.
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Rename the benchmarks. This idea has come up repeatedly as a way to clarify we are testing recursion, not the optimal fib algorithm, for example. My proposed renaming
| old | new |
|---|---|
| fib | recursion_fibonacci |
| quicksort | recursion_quicksort |
| pi_sum | iteration_pi_sum |
| mandel | iteration_mandelbrot |
| parse_int | parse_integers |
| rand_mat_mul | matrix_multiply |
| rand_mat_stat | matrix_statistics |
| printfd | print_decimals |
Do those look good?