Le vendredi 02 mars 2007 à 12:01 +0100, Vanuxem Grégory a écrit :
> Le vendredi 02 mars 2007 à 09:01 +0000, Xavier Calbet a écrit : 
> >   Hello,
> > 
> >   I am getting confused now with inplace. The detailed code and times
> > are shown below.
> > I am running three tests trying to implement inplace operations
> > to make the code faster. The summary is:
> > 
> > Test #     command                                  time
> >  1:      $Re=$Re+1000.;                          58 sec
> >  2:      $Re.=$Re+1000.;                       109 sec
> >  3:      $Re->inplace;$Re+1000.;            55 sec
> 
> #1: a new piddle of ~30Mb is created, threading is used (threading along
> dimension 0 and 1 of $Re). Affectation of the new result of each
> addition to the elements of this new piddle.
> 
> #2: same thing _+_ affectation of the _new_ 2000x2000 piddle (after
> calculation) to $Re, each element at a time.
> (I find your timing surprising)
> 
> #3: threading as in #1 and #2 but no new piddle, results of additions
> affected to elements of $Re "inplace".
> (in C : Re[x,y] = Re[x,y]*1000, approximatively, since piddle are
> represented by a one dimensional array in a more complex structure).
> 
> 
> with 2000x2000 piddle of double (from your code below)
> ----------------------------------
> ---- #1
> time perl pdl.pl
> 
> real    0m48.948s
> user    0m25.947s
> sys     0m22.981s
> 
> ---- #3
> time perl pdl_i.pl
> 
> real    0m23.460s
> user    0m23.032s
> sys     0m0.350s
> ----------------------------------

Forgot to say : look at the system time (kernel, in part due to memory
allocation/deallocation).

Greg

> 
> 23 secondes against 48.
> 
> Apparently you made a mistake, your timings above do not reflect the
> ones below.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> > 
> >   I believe test 3 is doing things really inplace, but its time is almost 
> > the
> > same as test 1, which is the "easy" way. Does this mean
> > that test 1 is really done inplace? Or maybe test 3 is not done inplace?
> > 
> >   I thought the .= operator performed operations inplace, and I would have
> > thought test 2 was also doing things inplace like test 3. Obviously it is
> > not. In fact it is taking twice the time to run probably meaning it is
> > doing the calculations twice. What am I missing here?
> > 
> >   Many thanks again,
> > 
> >   Xavier
> > 
> > 
> > *******************************************
> > Test 1
> > -----------------------------------------
> > $npts=2000;
> > $niter=1000;
> > $Re=zeroes(double,$npts,$npts)->xlinvals(-1.5,0.5);
> > 
> > for($j=0;$j<$niter;$j++){
> >     $Re=$Re+1000.;
> > }
> > ------------------------------------------------
> >  time output:
> > 
> > real    1m0.727s
> > user    0m22.794s
> > sys     0m36.667s
> > 
> > ******************************************************
> > Test 2:
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > $npts=2000;
> > $niter=1000;
> > $Re=zeroes(double,$npts,$npts)->xlinvals(-1.5,0.5);
> > 
> > for($j=0;$j<$niter;$j++){
> >     $Re.=$Re+1000.;
> > }
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > time output:
> > 
> > real    1m53.829s
> > user    1m11.915s
> > sys     0m37.040s
> > 
> > *******************************************************
> > Test 3
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > $npts=2000;
> > $niter=1000;
> > $Re=zeroes(double,$npts,$npts)->xlinvals(-1.5,0.5);
> > 
> > for($j=0;$j<$niter;$j++){
> >     $Re->inplace;
> >     $Re+1000.;
> > }
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > time output:
> > 
> > real    0m33.181s
> > user    0m32.446s
> > sys     0m0.190s



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