Summary

This PR adds comprehensive benchmarking coverage for matrix operations as part of Phase 1 (Quick Wins) of the performance improvement plan. This establishes baseline performance metrics for all core matrix operations.

Performance Goal

Goal Selected: Add comprehensive matrix operation benchmarks (Phase 1, Priority: HIGH)

Rationale: The research plan identified that while vector operations had benchmarks, matrix operations had no benchmarking coverage. This PR fills that critical gap by adding 14 comprehensive benchmarks covering:

• Element-wise operations
• Scalar operations
• Matrix multiplication
• Matrix-vector operations
• Transpose
• Row/column access
• Broadcast operations

Changes Made

New Benchmarks Added

All benchmarks test three matrix sizes (10x10, 50x50, 100x100) and use MemoryDiagnoser to track allocations.

Element-wise Operations:

1. ElementWiseAdd - SIMD-accelerated element-wise addition
2. ElementWiseSubtract - SIMD-accelerated element-wise subtraction
3. ElementWiseMultiply - SIMD-accelerated Hadamard product
4. ElementWiseDivide - SIMD-accelerated element-wise division

Scalar Operations:
5. ScalarAdd - Add scalar to all matrix elements
6. ScalarMultiply - Multiply all matrix elements by scalar

Matrix Multiplication:
7. MatrixMultiply - Standard matrix-matrix multiplication (matmul)

Matrix-Vector Operations:
8. MatrixVectorMultiply - Matrix × vector (SIMD-optimized)
9. VectorMatrixMultiply - Row vector × matrix (SIMD-optimized)

Structure Operations:
10. Transpose - Block-based transpose (16x16 blocks)

Access Patterns:
11. GetRow - Extract a single row (contiguous memory)
12. GetCol - Extract a single column (strided access)

Broadcast Operations:
13. AddRowVector - Add row vector to all matrix rows (SIMD)
14. AddColVector - Add column vector to all matrix columns (SIMD)

Files Modified

• benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks/Matrix.fs - New benchmark class
• benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks.fsproj - Added Matrix.fs to compilation
• benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks/Program.fs - Registered MatrixBenchmarks class

Approach

1. ✅ Analyzed existing Matrix operations in src/FsMath/Matrix.fs
2. ✅ Identified all public matrix operations to benchmark
3. ✅ Created comprehensive benchmark suite following VectorBenchmarks pattern
4. ✅ Used appropriate sizes (10, 50, 100) to capture scaling behavior
5. ✅ Verified compilation and benchmark discovery
6. ✅ Ran complete benchmark suite with --job short
7. ✅ Collected and analyzed baseline performance metrics

Performance Measurements

Test Environment

• Platform: Linux Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (virtualized)
• CPU: AMD EPYC 7763, 2 physical cores (4 logical) with AVX2 SIMD
• Runtime: .NET 8.0.20 with hardware intrinsics (AVX2, AES, BMI1, BMI2, FMA, LZCNT, PCLMUL, POPCNT)
• Job: ShortRun (3 warmup, 3 iterations, 1 launch)

Results Summary by Operation Type

Element-wise Operations (10x10)

All element-wise operations show excellent SIMD performance with ~70ns latency:

• Add: 71.3 ns, 856 B allocated
• Subtract: 70.1 ns, 856 B allocated
• Multiply: 70.5 ns, 856 B allocated
• Divide: 77.1 ns, 856 B allocated (slightly slower due to division complexity)

Scalar Operations (10x10)

Scalar operations are slightly faster than element-wise:

• Add: 64.4 ns, 856 B
• Multiply: 63.3 ns, 856 B

Matrix Multiplication Scaling

Shows expected O(n³) scaling:

• 10×10: 725 ns (1.9 KB)
• 50×50: 32.4 μs (40.6 KB)
• 100×100: 224 μs (160.9 KB)

Matrix-Vector Operations (100x100)

• Matrix × vector: 1,994 ns (824 B) - O(n²)
• Vector × matrix: 9,208 ns (824 B) - slower due to column access

Access Pattern Comparison (100x100)

• GetRow: 47.9 ns - very fast (contiguous memory)
• GetCol: 105.9 ns - 2.2× slower (strided access)

Detailed Results Table

Key Observations

1. SIMD Effectiveness: Element-wise operations show excellent SIMD utilization with minimal overhead
2. Linear Scaling: Most operations scale linearly with matrix size (O(n²) for n×n matrices)
3. Memory Layout Impact: Row access is ~2× faster than column access due to row-major storage
4. MatMul Performance: Matrix multiplication shows expected cubic scaling; could be optimized in Phase 2 with blocked GEMM
5. Vector × Matrix Asymmetry: Vector × matrix is 4-5× slower than matrix × vector due to column access patterns
6. Allocation Patterns: All operations allocate exactly what's needed for output (no excess allocations)

Performance Bottlenecks Identified

From these benchmarks, we can identify Phase 2 optimization opportunities:

1. Matrix Multiplication (100×100: 224 μs) - Candidate for blocked/tiled GEMM algorithm
2. Vector × Matrix (100×100: 9.2 μs) - Could benefit from transpose optimization or gather/scatter patterns
3. GetCol (100×100: 106 ns) - Column extraction could use SIMD gather operations
4. Transpose (100×100: 12.6 μs) - Already uses 16×16 blocking, but could be tuned

Replicating the Performance Measurements

To replicate these benchmarks:

# 1. Build the project
./build.sh

# 2. Run matrix benchmarks with short job (~5 minutes)
dotnet run -c Release --project benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks.fsproj -- --filter "*MatrixBenchmarks*" --job short

# 3. For more accurate measurements, run with default settings (~20-30 minutes)
dotnet run -c Release --project benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks.fsproj -- --filter "*MatrixBenchmarks*"

# 4. To run ALL benchmarks (vector + matrix):
dotnet run -c Release --project benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks.fsproj -- --job short

Results will be saved to BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts/results/ in multiple formats (GitHub MD, HTML, CSV).

Testing

✅ All benchmarks compile successfully
✅ All 14 matrix benchmarks × 3 sizes = 42 benchmarks discovered
✅ All benchmarks execute without errors
✅ Existing tests still pass (132 tests)
✅ No performance report files included in commit

Next Steps

This PR establishes comprehensive baseline measurements for matrix operations. Based on these measurements, future work from the performance plan includes:

Phase 1 (remaining):

• Document performance characteristics across all operations

Phase 2 (algorithmic improvements):

1. Implement blocked/tiled matrix multiplication (expected 1.5-3× improvement for 100×100+)
2. Optimize column operations with SIMD gather/scatter
3. Improve vector × matrix performance (target: match matrix × vector)
4. Tune transpose block size based on cache hierarchy

Phase 3 (advanced optimizations):

• Add parallel options for large matrix operations
• Cache-aware tuning based on benchmark data
• Specialized routines for symmetric/triangular matrices

Related Issues/Discussions

• Performance Research: https://github.com/fslaborg/FsMath/discussions/11
• Open PR Daily Perf Improver - Enable additional vector benchmarks #16: Enable additional vector benchmarks
• Open PR Daily Perf Improver - Fix and optimize outer product #18: Fix and optimize outer product

Commands Used

# Created branch
git checkout -b perf/matrix-operation-benchmarks

# Built project
./build.sh

# Listed benchmarks
dotnet run -c Release --project benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks.fsproj -- --list flat

# Ran benchmarks
dotnet run -c Release --project benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks/FsMath.Benchmarks.fsproj -- --filter "*MatrixBenchmarks*" --job short

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