(corrected post)
Wrapping a value in a type gets you a passable, mutable value via the field
name:
julia> type PassMe
b::UInt8
end
julia> useMe = PassMe(0x03); useMe.b
0x03
julia> function changeMe!(pass::PassMe, newval::UInt8)
pass.b = newval
true # pass is not returned
end;
julia> changeMe!(useMe, 0xff); useMe.b
0xff
On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 12:16:24 AM UTC-4, Yichao Yu wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Jeffrey Sarnoff
> <jeffrey...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
> > The way to get a non-global, global-like value is to wrap the whole
> thing
> > as a module:
> > module aes
> > exports rijnadael
> >
> > not_a_global = true
> > # .. functions use not_a_global ...
> > end # module
>
> Just to be clear, `not_a_global` is a global.
>
> >
> > Wrapping a value in a type gets you a passable, mutable value via the
> field
> > name:
> >
> > julia> type PassMe
> > b::UInt8
> > end
> > julia> useMe = PassMe(0x03); useMe.b
> > 0x03
> > julia> function changeMe!(pass::PassMe, newval::UInt8)
> > pass.b = newval
> > true # pass is not returned
> > end;
> > julia> changeMe!(useMe, 0xff); useMe.b
> > 0xff
> >
> >
> > On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 11:34:58 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Oh yeah, I didn't notice that – having those be abstractly typed is
> going
> >> to a trainwreck for performance. It should be possible to eliminate all
> >> allocation from this kind of code.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Tom Breloff <t...@breloff.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I looked at your code for a grand total of 20 seconds, but the one
> thing
> >>> I would check is whether using concrete types (Int) in your immutable,
> or
> >>> maybe making it parametric:
> >>>
> >>> immutable AES_cipher_params{T<:Unsigned}
> >>> bits::T # Cipher key length, bits
> >>> nk::T # Number of 32-bit words, cipher key
> >>> nb::T # Number of columns in State
> >>> nr::T # Number of rounds
> >>> block_size::T # byte length
> >>> block_x::T # block dimensions X
> >>> block_y::T # block dimensions Y
> >>> end
> >>>
> >>> It's possible the compiler can't infer enough types because of this?
> >>> Just a guess...
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Corey Moncure <corey....@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> The creator has descended from the shining heavens and responded to
> my
> >>>> post. Cool.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here are some stats naively gathered from taking time() before and
> after
> >>>> the run and subtracting. Second run is with gc_disable(). A 1.26x
> speedup
> >>>> is noted.
> >>>>
> >>>> elapsed (s): 0.0916
> >>>> Throughput, KB/s: 1705.97
> >>>> Average time (μs) per iteration: 0.0
> >>>> Estimated cycles / iteration @ 4.0 GHz: 36636.0
> >>>>
> >>>> elapsed (s): 0.0727
> >>>> Throughput, KB/s: 2149.6
> >>>> Average time (μs) per iteration: 7.2688
> >>>> Estimated cycles / iteration @ 4.0 GHz: 29075.0
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd like to know how to minimize the effect of the garbage collector
> and
> >>>> allocations. The algorithm is a tight loop with a handful of tiny
> >>>> functions, none of which ought to require much allocation. A few
> variables
> >>>> for placeholder data are inevitable. But I have read the warnings
> >>>> discouraging the use of global state. What is the Julia way to
> allocate a
> >>>> few bytes of scratch memory that can be accessed within the scope of,
> say,
> >>>> apply_ECB_mode!() without having to be reallocated each time
> gf_mult() or
> >>>> mix_columns! are called?
> >>>>
> >>>> Also, can a function be forced to mutate variables passed to it,
> >>>> eliminating a redundant assignment? Julia seems happy to do this
> with
> >>>> Arrays but not unit primitives. Pass by reference (pointer)? Does
> the LLVM
> >>>> appreciate this?
> >>>>
> >>>> On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 6:15:52 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There's nothing obviously glaring here. I would definitely recommend
> >>>>> using the built-in profiler to see where it's spending its time.
> There may
> >>>>> be subtle type instabilities or some other non-obvious issue. You
> definitely
> >>>>> ought to be able to get within striking distance of similar C code,
> which
> >>>>> should be in the expected 4-10x slower than hand-coded assembly.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Corey Moncure <corey....@gmail.com>
>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://github.com/cmoncure/crypto/blob/master/aes.jl
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In the process of learning Julia (and crypto) I implemented the
> >>>>>> Rijndael block cipher and inverse cipher. I tried to write
> idiomatic yet
> >>>>>> concise code, but the performance is not very desirable. On my
> machine
> >>>>>> (i5-2500k @ 4.0 Ghz) the throughput is piddling, on the order of
> 10e6
> >>>>>> bytes/sec, and memory allocation is at 3056 bytes / block, which I
> have not
> >>>>>> been able to cut down any further.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Obviously I do not intend to compete with hand-tuned assembler
> >>>>>> routines that heavily exploit SIMD and pre-computed tables, but my
> >>>>>> completely unfounded gut feeling is that given the right input,
> Julia should
> >>>>>> be able to approach within a factor of 4-10 without such
> optimizations.
> >>>>>> Currently this routine is within a factor of 1000.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any Julia experts out there willing to take a peek at the code and
> >>>>>> offer some tips for idiomatic (i.e. within the framework of Julia
> syntax and
> >>>>>> style) optimizations?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In the course of doing this I have run into several gripes with
> Julia,
> >>>>>> particularly some of the built-in functions which are often
> confusing or
> >>>>>> contradictory by virtue of the type declarations of certain methods
> (or lack
> >>>>>> of needed ones). For instance, Julia does not support negative
> indexing of
> >>>>>> arrays... so then why do so many functions on arrays take only
> signed
> >>>>>> integer types for dimensions? To the noobie it seems like an
> obvious choice
> >>>>>> to type data holding the calculation of matrix dimensions or
> indices as
> >>>>>> unsigned integers, given that the language does not support
> negative
> >>>>>> indexing. Yet this fails unexpectedly in many built-ins such as
> sub().
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
