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#!/usr/bin/env perl

##
## Usage:
##    perl matmult_base.pl 1024                    ## Default matrix size 512
##

use strict;
use warnings;

use Cwd 'abs_path'; ## Insert lib-path at the head of @INC.
use lib abs_path($0 =~ m{^(.*)[\\/]} && $1 || abs_path) . '/../../lib';

my $prog_name = $0; $prog_name =~ s{^.*[\\/]}{}g;

use Time::HiRes qw(time);

use PDL;

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###############################################################################

my $tam = @ARGV ? shift : 512;

if ($tam !~ /^\d+$/ || $tam < 2) {
   die "error: $tam must be an integer greater than 1.\n";
}

my $cols = $tam;
my $rows = $tam;

my $a = sequence $cols,$rows;
my $b = sequence $rows,$cols;

my $start = time;
my $c = $a x $b;                         ## Performs matrix multiplication
my $end = time;

## Print results -- use same pairs to match David Mertens' output.
printf "\n## $prog_name $tam: compute time: %0.03f secs\n\n", $end - $start;

for my $pair ([0, 0], [324, 5], [42, 172], [$rows-1, $rows-1]) {
   my ($col, $row) = @$pair; $col %= $rows; $row %= $rows;
   printf "## (%d, %d): %s\n", $col, $row, $c->at($col, $row);
}

print "\n";