[Numpy-discussion] Different results from repeated calculation

[Fernando Perez]

On 1/27/07, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm, and your problem machine is running smp linux. As is mine; fedora uses
> smp even on single processor machines these days. I think we could use more
> data here comparing
>
> OSX
> Linux (single, smp)
> Window

OK, this is weird.  I modified the repeat code a little to ease
collecting of results, and all of a sudden the differences went away.
If you look at the attached code, here's what happens for me:

a) If I have line 77 like this (commented out):

    #print '-'*75

I get:

[...]
94 z different 8.47032947254e-22
95 z different 8.47032947254e-22
96 z different 8.47032947254e-22
98 z different 8.47032947254e-22
99 z different 8.47032947254e-22

Numpy version: 1.0.2.dev3521

test1:  0  differences
test2:  75  differences
test3:  0  differences



b) If I remove the comment char from that line, I get:

tlon[~/Desktop]> python repeat.py

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Numpy version: 1.0.2.dev3521

test1:  0  differences
test2:  0  differences
test3:  0  differences


That's it.  One comment char removed, and something that's done
/after/ the tests are actually executed.

That kind of 'I add a printf() call and the bug disappears' is
unpleasantly reminiscent of lurking pointer errors in C code...

Cheers,

f
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