Embench-IoT 2.0 Weekly Update

[Konrad Moron]

Hi all,

Ray, Jeremy, Paolo and I just had our weekly Embench 2.0 engineering call, here's the current status of things:

Progress since last week:

• Removing library overhead from the size benchmark: implementation done
• Updating the build toolchain to be more declarative and easier to use from the command line: prototype done, have to adjust all previous configurations
• Removing benchmarks: nbody, cubic, primecount due for removal

Things to-do until next week:

• Update the documentation and examples for new changes to the toolchain
• Update the size computation to not rely on section names (identify sections based on flags instead)
• Change the interface of the speed benchmark to allow for greater user flexibility
• Remove the 'lief' dependency from the size benchmark and replace it with something available on all relevant OS's
• ML Benchmark: Ray is going to find some potential candidates

Long-term (Until paper deadline) tasks:

• Decide on a reference board
• Compute baseline results for the reference board
• Create a Google Drive similar to what Stefan Wallentowitz has for the FOSSi Foundation
  

If you're missing something from embench 2.0 for the paper, you can message Jeremy/Konrad for technical topics, or Ray Simar.