Re: [BENCHMARK] AIM Independent Resource Benchmark results for kernel-2.5.44

[John Hawkes]

From: "Jakob Oestergaard" <[e-mail]>
...[snip]...
> The correct way to terminate that loop is, like was already suggested,
> doing a comparison to see if the residual is "numerically zero" or
> "sufficiently zero-ish for the given purpose". Eg.  "delta < 1E-12" or
> eventually "fabs(delta) < 1E-12".

Tim Witham at the OSDL told me that he ran some experiments with
different convergent deltas:

  zero Rate (ops/sec) Iteration Rate
 10-6    331,300    1656.5
 10-8    315,049    1575.0
 10-10    302,000    1510.0
 10-12    292,300    1461.5
 10-14    285,400    1427.0

Anything smaller than 10-14 didn't converge.

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John Hawkes