Purpose
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The goal of this project is to provide a tools to measure the performances of a
function.
Moreover, the module provides a collection of benchmark scripts to measure the
performance of Scilab.
This module uses the apifun module.
Features
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This module provides the following functions.
* scibench_backslash — Benchmarks the backslash operator.
* scibench_benchfun — Benchmarks a function and measure its performance.
* scibench_cholesky — Benchmarks the Cholesky decomposition.
* scibench_dynbenchfun — Benchmarks a function with increasing data size.
* scibench_getsettings — Inquire the parameters of Scilab and its
environment.
* scibench_latticeboltz — Performs a 2D Lattice Boltzmann simulation with
Scilab.
* scibench_matmul — Benchmarks the matrix-matrix multiplication.
* scibench_poisson — Solves the 2D Poisson PDE.
* scibench_poissonA — Returns a sparse matrix for 2D Poisson PDE.
* scibench_poissonAu — Returns the A*u sparse product for 2D Poisson PDE.
Type "help scibench_overview" for a quick start.
Forge
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http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/scibench/
Authors
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* 2010 - 2011 - DIGITEO - Michael Baudin
* 2010 - DIGITEO - Vincent Lejeune
* 2006-2008 - Jonas Latt
* Adriano Sciacovelli
Licence
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This toolbox is distributed under the CeCILL license :
http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.txt
Acknowledgements
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Michael Baudin thanks Clément David and Allan Cornet.
