File names discussion

[kroggen]

We need to decide good names for the files on this repo as it may have one file for each implementation

We must choose:

• the name of the source-code file
• the command to build (like make run)
• the name of the compiled file

Here is a suggestion:

run.c      ->  make run      ->  run
run-q8.c   ->  make run-q8   ->  run-q8
run-q4.c   ->  make run-q4   ->  run-q4
run.cu     ->  make cuda     ->  run-cuda
run-q8.cu  ->  make cuda-q8  ->  run-cuda-q8
run-q4.cu  ->  make cuda-q4  ->  run-cuda-q4
run.cl     ->  make opencl   ->  run-opencl

[kroggen]

The problem is that for a single file, like run.c, there are many build commands (make runfast, make runomp...)

Please share your ideas

[kroggen]

One option is to use prefix and suffix

Where the prefix is the name of the source or binary file, and the suffix is the type of build

So, for example:

make run-fast would build the run.c with -Ofast
make run-q8-omp build the run-q8.c with OpenMP
...

[karpathy]

Yep I like that idea, simple and effective.