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By and large the performance of this library should be acceptable for most
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In terms of the algorithms used, this library aims to use the same "best
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implemented in C or FORTRAN. Traditionally languages such as C or FORTRAN are
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a sense this library provides a good test of current compiler technology, and
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the "abstraction penalty" - if any - of C++ compared to other languages.
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The three most important things you can do to ensure the best performance from
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Turn on your compilers optimisations: the difference between "release"
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and "debug" builds can easily be a <a class="link" href="getting_best.html" title="Getting the Best Performance from this Library: Compiler and Compiler Options">factor
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Pick your compiler carefully: <a class="link" href="comp_compilers.html" title="Comparing Different Compilers">performance
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differences of up to 8 fold</a> have been found between some Windows
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compilers for example.
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Disable internal use of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">long</span> <span class="keyword">double</span></code>, this will reduce accuracy but typically
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yield a 2x speedup on modern x64 hardware/compilers.
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The <a class="link" href="../perf.html" title="Chapter 22. Performance">performance section</a> contains more information
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on the performance of this library, what you can do to fine tune it, and how
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this library compares to some other open source alternatives.
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