Re: [AMBER-Developers] (long-ish) saga about the HAS_10_12 option in sander and pmemd

From: Duke, Robert E Jr <rduke.email.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:53:41 +0000

Well, do bear in mind the conditions under which the code was written: 1) mandate to absolutely maximize performance, and 2) good branch prediction was not uniformly available across all cpu's in use.
- Bob


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From: David A Case [case.biomaps.rutgers.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:48 AM
To: AMBER Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [AMBER-Developers] (long-ish) saga about the HAS_10_12 option in sander and pmemd

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011, Daniel Roe wrote:

> (over 1000 ifdefs in sander alone).

??? By my count (using the get_ifdefs script) there are 48 ifdef-ed variables
in sander. Still, some of them are almost certainly not needed.

(There are only(!) 42 unique ifdef-ed variables in pmemd, but they get used a
lot.)

....dac

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