DevelopmentNotes.txt

08/20/2016:
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- the OS command-line style of Python calling the external program that returns a timing to the first line of its console output, while it is not the most elegeant way to to this, it is the easiest for the programmer-in-training that the original version of this program (in my pycnumanal-lessons GitHub project) and is the most flexible in dealing with different types of external programs: C, Fortran, MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, MATLAB, etc.

- in the external C program, due to using gcc clock() function, timings are in cpu clock ticks (not seconds or minutes). Therefore, they need to be converted to seconds

- storage is done using Python interfacing with SQLite (sqlite3)

- plotting done using Python's matplotlib