Re: [Starpu-devel] [Starpu-commits] r8197 - in trunk: doc/chapters gcc-plugin/examples/cholesky src src/core src/sched_policies tests/sched_policies

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Ludovic Courtès, le Tue 04 Dec 2012 10:13:12 +0100, a écrit :
> croelandt@users.gforge.inria.fr skribis:
> > Users should now use dmda. This commit removes the heft scheduler, 
> > updates the
> > documentation and gets rid of heft in the tests.
> 
> My understanding is that HEFT and DMDA are different scheduling
> algorithms.

They actually use the same heuristic (and indeed get the same
performance on magma for instance). Cédric had rewritten one into the
other from scratch for better readiblity. They had thus diverged in the
implementation, but Cyril merged them.

Samuel