Re: Open source project that needs performance optimizations

[John Darrington]

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I think that PSPP is already well optimised.  That isn't to say there is never
room for improvement, of course.


There might be opportunities for parallelism.  For example, the merge sort could
be parallised.

Perhaps the GPU could be (mis)used to calculate some of the expensive random 
number distributions
which we don't yet support, but I would have to read up about how they work.


J'


On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 06:50:00PM +0300, PSATHAS NILOS-HRISTOS wrote:
     Hello,
     i am an undergraduate student on computer engineering and im considering
     to do my thesis to an open source project and make performance
     optimizations and/or add parallelism to it where possible (or even better
     make use of GPU). Do you think that pspp is a good candidate?
     
     Thanks,
     Psathas Neilos
     
     
     
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