db51375bb7
genann: Optionally resolve activation functions at link time
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Shave around 94 million instructions and 10 million branches off of execution
trace of example4 if the sigmoid activation function is resolved at link-time.
Before (`make`):
```
Performance counter stats for './example4':
98.988806 task-clock (msec) # 0.998 CPUs utilized
1 context-switches # 0.010 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
79 page-faults # 0.798 K/sec
312,298,260 cycles # 3.155 GHz
1,094,183,752 instructions # 3.50 insn per cycle
212,007,732 branches # 2141.734 M/sec
62,774 branch-misses # 0.03% of all branches
0.099228100 seconds time elapsed
```
After:
`make`:
```
Performance counter stats for './example4':
97.335180 task-clock (msec) # 0.998 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches # 0.000 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
82 page-faults # 0.842 K/sec
306,722,357 cycles # 3.151 GHz
1,065,669,644 instructions # 3.47 insn per cycle
214,256,601 branches # 2201.225 M/sec
60,154 branch-misses # 0.03% of all branches
0.097577079 seconds time elapsed
```
`make sigmoid`:
```
Performance counter stats for './example4':
92.629610 task-clock (msec) # 0.997 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches # 0.000 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
78 page-faults # 0.842 K/sec
291,863,801 cycles # 3.151 GHz
1,000,931,204 instructions # 3.43 insn per cycle
202,465,800 branches # 2185.757 M/sec
50,949 branch-misses # 0.03% of all branches
0.092889789 seconds time elapsed
```
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
2017-12-18 22:36:44 +10:30
afa5df1ffc
Makefile: Use $(RM), silencing errors on missing files
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$(RM) includes the -f flag, so the clean target now succeeds when files
to remove don't exist. The post-condition of clean is that compilation
artifacts are not present; this is trivially satisfied if they never
existed.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
2017-10-22 08:05:06 +10:30
Lewis Van Winkle