Hi Andrea
2008/5/25 Andrea Gavana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> When you bench the Cython code, you'll have to take out the Python
>> calls (for checking dtype etc.), otherwise you're comparing apples and
>> oranges. After I tweaked it, it ran roughly the same time as
>> Francesc's version. But like I mentioned before, the Fortran results
>> should trump all, so what is going on here?
>
> I thought I had removed the Python checks from the Cython code (if you
> look at the attached files), but maybe I haven't removed them all...
> about Fortran, I have no idea: I have 6 different implementations in
> Fortran, and they are all slower than the pure NumPy ones. I don't
> know if I can optimiza them further (I have asked to a Fortran
> newsgroup too, but no faster solution has arisen). I am not even sure
> if the defaults f2py compiler options are already on "maximum
> optimization" for Fortran. Does anyone know if this is true? Maybe
> Pearu can shed some light on this issue...
Here are the timings on my machine. You were right -- you did remove
the type checks in the Cython code. It turns out the bottleneck was
the "for i in range" loop. I was under the impression that loop was
correctly optimised; I'll have a chat with the Cython developers. If
I change it to "for i in xrange" or "for i from 0 <= i < n" the speed
improves a lot.
I used gfortran 4.2.1, and as you can see below, the Fortran
implementation beat all the others.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Number Of Cells: 300000
---------------------------------------------------------------------
| Rank | Method Name | Execution Time | Relative Slowness |
---------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Fortran 5 (James) 0.01854820 1.00000
2 Fortran 6 (James) 0.01882849 1.01511
3 Fortran 1 (Mine) 0.01917751 1.03393
4 Fortran 4 {Michael) 0.01927021 1.03893
5 Fortran 2 (Mine) 0.01937311 1.04447
6 NumPy 4 (Nathan-Vector) 0.02008982 1.08311
7 NumPy 2 (Nathan) 0.02046990 1.10361
8 NumPy 5 (Andrea) 0.02108521 1.13678
9 NumPy 1 (Francesc) 0.02211959 1.19255
10 Cython (Stefan) 0.02235680 1.20533
11 Fortran 3 (Alex) 0.02486629 1.34063
12 NumPy 3 (Peter) 0.05020461 2.70671
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Regards
Stéfan
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