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authorTianon Gravi <admwiggin@gmail.com>2015-01-15 11:54:00 -0700
committerTianon Gravi <admwiggin@gmail.com>2015-01-15 11:54:00 -0700
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-// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
-// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-// This file prints execution times for the Mul benchmark
-// given different Karatsuba thresholds. The result may be
-// used to manually fine-tune the threshold constant. The
-// results are somewhat fragile; use repeated runs to get
-// a clear picture.
-
-// Usage: go test -run=TestCalibrate -calibrate
-
-package big
-
-import (
- "flag"
- "fmt"
- "testing"
- "time"
-)
-
-var calibrate = flag.Bool("calibrate", false, "run calibration test")
-
-func karatsubaLoad(b *testing.B) {
- BenchmarkMul(b)
-}
-
-// measureKaratsuba returns the time to run a Karatsuba-relevant benchmark
-// given Karatsuba threshold th.
-func measureKaratsuba(th int) time.Duration {
- th, karatsubaThreshold = karatsubaThreshold, th
- res := testing.Benchmark(karatsubaLoad)
- karatsubaThreshold = th
- return time.Duration(res.NsPerOp())
-}
-
-func computeThresholds() {
- fmt.Printf("Multiplication times for varying Karatsuba thresholds\n")
- fmt.Printf("(run repeatedly for good results)\n")
-
- // determine Tk, the work load execution time using basic multiplication
- Tb := measureKaratsuba(1e9) // th == 1e9 => Karatsuba multiplication disabled
- fmt.Printf("Tb = %10s\n", Tb)
-
- // thresholds
- th := 4
- th1 := -1
- th2 := -1
-
- var deltaOld time.Duration
- for count := -1; count != 0 && th < 128; count-- {
- // determine Tk, the work load execution time using Karatsuba multiplication
- Tk := measureKaratsuba(th)
-
- // improvement over Tb
- delta := (Tb - Tk) * 100 / Tb
-
- fmt.Printf("th = %3d Tk = %10s %4d%%", th, Tk, delta)
-
- // determine break-even point
- if Tk < Tb && th1 < 0 {
- th1 = th
- fmt.Print(" break-even point")
- }
-
- // determine diminishing return
- if 0 < delta && delta < deltaOld && th2 < 0 {
- th2 = th
- fmt.Print(" diminishing return")
- }
- deltaOld = delta
-
- fmt.Println()
-
- // trigger counter
- if th1 >= 0 && th2 >= 0 && count < 0 {
- count = 10 // this many extra measurements after we got both thresholds
- }
-
- th++
- }
-}
-
-func TestCalibrate(t *testing.T) {
- if *calibrate {
- computeThresholds()
- }
-}