Mir GLAS vs Intel MKL: which is faster?

Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Sep 24 10:46:07 PDT 2016


On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 13:49:35 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/24/16 9:18 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 12:52:09 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Could you also add a comparison with SciPy? People often say 
>>> it's just
>>> fine for scientific computing.
>>
>> That's just BLAS (so could be mkl, could be openBLAS, could be 
>> netlib,
>> etc. just depends on the system and compilation choices) under 
>> the hood,
>> you'd just see a small overhead from the python wrapping. 
>> Basically,
>> everyone uses a BLAS or Eigen.
>
> I see, thanks. To the extent the Python-specific overheads are 
> measurable, it might make sense to include the benchmark.
>
>> An Eigen comparison would be interesting.
>
> That'd be awesome especially since the article text refers to 
> it.
>
>
> Andrei

Eigen was added (but only data, still need to write text). 
Relative charts was added. You was added "Acknowledgements" 
section --Ilya


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