great
congrats

Op maandag 23 september 2013 23:25:25 UTC+2 schreef Dmitry Groshev:
>
> Today Google Summer of Code finally ends. NDArray is pretty stable now and 
> will be the default implementation used by core.matrix in the upcoming 
> release. It was an epic journey through bugs, unexpected slowness and weird 
> macros, but now I can proudly state that in some cases NDArray can be 
> faster than NumPy by a factor of two: [1]. 
>
> Well, not always. It's hard to consistently beat highly optimized and 
> vectorized native code on JVM :) But we have a secrete sauce here in 
> Clojure: macros. You can find the code I've benchmarked here: [2]. What's 
> going on? The thing here is that using macros we can fully eliminate the 
> cost of intermediate matrix allocation (or function call machinery in case 
> of map-like functions) doing element-wise operations. Thanks to macros, the 
> code will be expanded to a highly optimized loop right inside user's code, 
> hiding messy details of NDArray and Clojure's type hinting from user, but 
> exposing necessary information to JVM. Moreover, this will work on a bunch 
> of NDArrays, too: [3]. More details can be found in NDArray's documentation 
> (by the courtesy of Marginalia): [4].
>
> Overall, this project was very interesting experience to me. Hope others 
> will find it useful :) 
>
> Cheers! 
> Dmitry
>
> [1]: http://i.imgur.com/6qdUF7f.png
> [2]: https://gist.github.com/si14/6676599
> [3]: 
> https://github.com/mikera/matrix-api/blob/develop/src/test/clojure/clojure/core/matrix/test_ndarray_implementation.clj#L16
> [4]: http://mikera.github.io/matrix-api/ndarray.html
>

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