POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Optimizations... : Re: Optimizations... Server Time
5 Sep 2024 17:16:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Optimizations...  
From: Kevin Wampler
Date: 23 Jul 2009 15:10:16
Message: <4a68b598$1@news.povray.org>
Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:
> Actually the complexity class of the algorithm remains exactly as
> relevant because it just says how the computation time asymptotically
> evolves as the data gets bigger. The optimization described here do not
> change that I believe. Just the multiplicative constant in front, which
> in practice is of course important as well ;-)

I think that BLAS probably uses a slightly more asymptotically efficient 
multiplication algorithm for matrices this size, but it's interesting 
that at best it only accounts for a small fraction of the speedup.


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