Allow multiple input domains to be run in the same benchmark program
authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:47:57 +0000 (14:17 +0530)
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:47:57 +0000 (14:17 +0530)
commitf0ee064b7dcdbde6b28002a63be4b86c86e235b9
tree9f8bf86a28d538c1158913afc8f734eb6339b44e
parentd569c6eeb48219993063f956e516704281602f7d
Allow multiple input domains to be run in the same benchmark program

Some math functions have distinct performance characteristics in
specific domains of inputs, where some inputs return via a fast path
while other inputs require multiple precision calculations, that too
at different precision levels.  The way to implement different domains
was to have a separate source file and benchmark definition, resulting
in separate programs.

This clutters up the benchmark, so this change allows these domains to
be consolidated into the same input file.  To do this, the input file
format is now enhanced to allow comments with a preceding # and
directives with two # at the begining of a line.  A directive that
looks like:

tells the benchmark generation script that what follows is a different
domain of inputs.  The value of the 'name' directive (in this case,
foo) is used in the output.  The two input domains are then executed
sequentially and their results collated separately.  with the above
directive, there would be two lines in the result that look like:

func(): ....
func(foo): ...
23 files changed:
ChangeLog
benchtests/Makefile
benchtests/atan-inputs
benchtests/bench-modf.c
benchtests/bench-skeleton.c
benchtests/cos-inputs
benchtests/exp-inputs
benchtests/pow-inputs
benchtests/sin-inputs
benchtests/slowatan-inputs [deleted file]
benchtests/slowatan.c [deleted file]
benchtests/slowcos-inputs [deleted file]
benchtests/slowcos.c [deleted file]
benchtests/slowexp-inputs [deleted file]
benchtests/slowexp.c [deleted file]
benchtests/slowpow-inputs [deleted file]
benchtests/slowpow.c [deleted file]
benchtests/slowsin-inputs [deleted file]
benchtests/slowsin.c [deleted file]
benchtests/slowtan-inputs [deleted file]
benchtests/slowtan.c [deleted file]
benchtests/tan-inputs
scripts/bench.pl