[Mono-list] SciMark2 benchmark in F#

[Jon Harrop]

On Tuesday 20 January 2009 23:02:55 you wrote:
> The scimark benchmark posted here is a *lot* more useful because it's the
> exact same code running on different platforms and versions of the .NET
> framework.

Indeed.

Actually, I had applied some simple low-level optimizations to the F# code to 
make it slightly faster on .NET. This is a (small) source of bias so perhaps 
I should revert to the simplest unoptimized version. Variations might also be 
interesting, e.g. doing the FFT over complex numbers represented as structs.

If you like, I can probably dig out or make up some more F# benchmarks. In 
fact, I have an F# version of my ray tracer benchmark.

Also, you may like to write some C# benchmarks based upon the freely-available 
linear algebra library Alglib:

  http://www.alglib.net

I benchmarked their eigensolvers recently and was pleasantly surprised to find 
that they are only ~4x slower (on .NET) than vendor tuned libraries like the 
Intel MKL. Hugely impressive, IMHO. These would make good benchmarks because 
the hot paths are relatively long.

-- 
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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