Newbie: Need help for benchmarking multiplication between two Floating Points.

[Andreas Andreakis]

Hallo,

I´m currently evaluating GMP against libraries from other languages (such as
from java). I´ve already tried to write a program which multiplies two
numbers, but I´m experiencing various problems. Also I´m not very
experienced in C++, so I cant tell if its me if I´m using GMP wrong. Thus I
need your help, in order to make sure that my function is written correctly
and as efficient as possible.

This are the conditions:
1) precision must be presetup and set to 999999999
2) generate a decimal from a string := number (I hava already the method
which generates the string / const char)
3) calculate number*number
4) show elapsed time in milliseconds for that operation

Here is my code (using C):


int main() {

    long precision = 9999999;

    mpf_set_default_prec(precision);

    mpf_t x, result;

    mpf_init(result);

    mpf_init_set_str(x, createStringDecimal(10000), 0);
 //createStringDecimal is already implemented, it returns a floating point
number of the given length

    clock_t t1, t2;
    t1 = clock();

    //action
    mpf_mul(result, x, x);

    t2 = clock();
    printf("\nFinished in %.2f seconds.\n\n", (t2-t1)*1.0/CLOCKS_PER_SEC);

    int n = 1000;
    gmp_printf ("fixed point mpf %.*Ff with %d digits\n", n, x, n);
    gmp_printf ("fixed point mpf %.*Ff with %d digits\n", n, result, n);

    return 0;
}
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