This example is used for benchmarking the simulator on various
machines. The bench command will build a network with 4
inputs and
outputs and a specified number of links, or as close to it as possible.
It then trains the network for a while and analyzes the running time.
benchAll will benchmark networks of 6 different sizes. You
should give it the name of a file for the results.
You might learn something about writing Tcl scripts by looking through this example.
Here are the results I got on a 500MHz Pentium III running Linux:
Millions of weight traversals per second with 100 links: 5.2 Millions of weight traversals per second with 1000 links: 25.9 Millions of weight traversals per second with 10000 links: 52.4 Millions of weight traversals per second with 100000 links: 24.9 Millions of weight traversals per second with 300000 links: 27.1 Millions of weight traversals per second with 1000000 links: 26.9
On Pentiums there is a replicable sweet spot for networks with around 10,000 links.