<div dir="ltr">On 28 October 2013 14:25, Hal Finkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hfinkel@anl.gov" target="_blank">hfinkel@anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> - On the other hand, if there is any validity to it, we're currently doing exactly the opposite of what we should be doing. Maybe doing exactly the opposite is the wrong approach as well, because the overall bias is very weak, and the best thing to do is really to do nothing</span></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think that's a good question that needs answering. </div><div><br></div><div>But the fact that your test-suite results didn't show any radical change in behaviour (not that it's good for it, but), I don't think that either choice will make a massive change on user code. It might be great for benchmark A or B, but in general, it'd get lost in noise. In a nutshell, to change the behaviour, we need a good reason, either that the current is broken, or that the new is better, but we don't know that yet.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you could, I'd appreciate it. I'll also provide an update with the BG/Q timings.<br>
</blockquote><div></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'll check the test-suite and others on my Chromebook and will get back to you.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">--renato</div></div>