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Re: prerelease checks
- To: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: prerelease checks
- From: Steve ROBBINS <stever at bic dot mni dot mcgill dot ca>
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:16:53 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: gsl-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Brian Gough wrote:
> Interesting. This is what I get,
>
> PASS: miser(f1), dim=7, err=0.0266 (0.963855 observed vs 1 expected)
> PASS: miser(f1), dim=9, err=0.0693 (0.9571 observed vs 1 expected)
>
> The first case is pretty similar. The second case seems to be
> significantly different. I have no idea why it should be.
>
> A long shot: if the environment variables GSL_RNG_TYPE or GSL_RNG_SEED
> were set when you ran the tests then that would affect the
> results. (We should definitely modify the monte functions not to
> depend on the environment variables and to take a generator as an
> extra argument).
Sorry, I should have described my environment more clearly.
NO GSL_ variables are set.
I did "./configure; make; make check"; i.e. no special configure options.
Compiled with gcc 2.95.2 (the debian package is version 2.95.2-10).
The CPU is PII 400MHz; cat /proc/cpuinfo reads:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 400.920218
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx osfxsr
bogomips : 399.77
I'm willing to run extra test cases, but I don't really have the expertise
to delve into the code itself at this time.
> Steve ROBBINS writes:
> > However, 'make check' reported these failures:
> >
> > FAIL: miser(f1), dim=7, err=0.0209 (0.951217562909207448 observed vs 1 expected)
> > FAIL: miser(f1), dim=9, err=0.1950 (1.20951997339804262 observed vs 1 expected)
> > FAIL: miser_test
> >
>