> Thank you both for the suggestions. I've re-written the code >> JULIA3, with > amazing results. JULIA2 was the previous "optimised" code. > > Test 1, J2: 0.751340928, J3: 0.008927998, C: 0.007420171; max-error = 0.0
Test 2, J2: 0.71344446, J3: 0.009042345, C: 0.007583811; max-error = 0.0 Test 3, J2: 0.719000046, J3: 0.008970343, C: 0.007626061; max-error = 0.0 Test 4, J2: 0.707967183, J3: 0.008979525, C: 0.007572056; max-error = 0.0 Test 5, J2: 0.730254977, J3: 0.009012892, C: 0.007649305; max-error = 0.0 . . .. (repeating the test gives consistent results; C is gcc with -O3) The new code and the test-code are copied below. Of course this means I have to write C-style codes in Julia to get this sort of performance. Why does Julia not optimise dE[:, k] += dJ dE[:, n] -= dJ to for i = 1:d dE[i, k] += dJ * r[i] dE[i, n] -= dJ * r[i] end ? > I think you should also replace your (s*s*s*s*s) with s^5 - it'll > automatically do the "right thing", and I'd be surprised if that is slower. If I revert to s^5, etc, then I lose 2 orders of magnitude. I will look into NumericExtensions and the profiler next. Thank you again for the help. Christoph function energy_julia3(x) N = size(x,2); d = size(x,1) E = 0.0; dE = zeros(d, N) r = zeros(d); dJ = 0.; s = 0. for n = 1:(N-1) for k = (n+1):N s = 0. for i = 1:d r[i] = x[i,k]-x[i,n] s += r[i]*r[i] end E += 1./(s*s*s*s*s*s) - 2. / (s*s*s) dJ = -12. * (1./(s*s*s*s*s*s*s) - 1./(s*s*s*s)) for i = 1:d dE[i, k] += dJ * r[i] dE[i, n] -= dJ * r[i] end end end return E, dE end function meshgrid{T}(vx::AbstractVector{T}, vy::AbstractVector{T}) m, n = length(vy), length(vx) vx = reshape(vx, 1, n) vy = reshape(vy, m, 1) (repmat(vx, m, 1), repmat(vy, 1, n)) end function lj_test_juliaopt(N) x = linspace(0, N, N+1) x, y = meshgrid(x, x) x = [x[:] y[:]]' for n = 1:10 tic(); Ej2, dEj2 = energy_julia2(x); t2 = toq(); tic(); Ej3, dEj3 = energy_julia3(x); t3 = toq(); tic(); dEc = zeros(size(x)) Ec = ccall( (:energy, "./libljtest_c"), Cdouble, (Ptr{Cdouble}, Ptr{Cdouble}, Cint, Cint), x, dEc, size(x,2), size(x,1)) tc = toq(); error = max( abs(Ej2-Ej3), abs(Ej2-Ec), norm(dEj2[:]-dEj3[:], Inf), norm(dEj2[:]-dEc[:], Inf) ) println("Test ", n, ", J2: ", t2, ", J3: ", t3, ", C: ", tc, "; max-error = ", error) end end