Séminaire REGALRSS

The Speedup-Test

02/07/2010
Intervenant(s) : Sid Touati (INRIA)
ABSTRACT
Code optimisation methods are usually experimented with by repeatedly measuring the execution times of the initial and optimised code versions. Given a fixed input for the program, speedup is defined as the ratio of the initial and optimised execution times. However, even with a fixed execution environment, running times vary, especially for toy/kernel benchmarks. With the introduction of multi-core architectures, this variability is becoming increasingly unstable. So different kinds of speedups may be reported, based on average execution time, minimal execution time, median, etc. Many published speedups in the literature are observations of a set of experiments that do not guarantee reproducibility. To improve upon that, this tutorial presents a rigorous statistical methodology regarding program performance analysis. We rely on well-known statistical tests (Shapiro-Wilk's test, Fisher's F-test, Student's t-test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov's test, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney's test) to study whether observed speedups are statistically significant. By fixing a desired risk level, we are able to analyse the statistical significance for both average and median execution times.
Link to the document and to the software: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00443839
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