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Article #8015Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithm
From: Donald McLachlan
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:13
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:13
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I believe Herman knows about the best algorythms for what he is doing. Therefore I suspect you folks who say try another algorythm are wasting bandwidth. I believe correct results are far more important to Herman than the wrong answer 3 times as quickly. Therefore the folks arguing over which is more important, correctness or speed, are also wasting bandwidth. Some of you seem to be getting the impression that Herman starts with highly optimised code. I suspect he writes code to verify the algorythm works. He then optimises the hell out of it. Then when he posts it and asks for help for further optimisations no one can easily understand the code. If what you really want is nice un-optimised code to look at, I suspect Herman would comply (as it is in his best interests) is you asked nicely. --- Donald McLachlan e-mail don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca Communications Research Centre / DRL office 613-998-2845 3701 Carling Ave., lab 613-998-2423 Ottawa, Ontario fax 613-990-7987 K2H 8S2
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!nott!dgbt!clark.dgim.doc.ca!news From: don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan) Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithm Message-ID: <1992Nov13.141300.3528@clark.dgim.doc.ca> Sender: news@clark.dgim.doc.ca (Usenet News) Reply-To: don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca Organization: Communication Research Centre References: <TMB.92Nov13104609@arolla.idiap.ch> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:13:00 GMT Lines: 27