Thanks for the conclusive example :) baptiste
On 12 August 2010 21:53, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 12 August 2010 at 20:59, baptiste auguie wrote: > | Point well taken, l'll try to use const and const& wherever appropriate. > > I am coming to this late (sorry, too much other stuff going on...) but I had > meant to illustrate the good advise provided by Davor and Romain. So here is > a stylized Armadillo examples -- not involving SEXPs as these really are > pointers which muddles everything. So here I simply create a matrix and > ship it to two functions: one uses const ref , one uses copy: > > e...@max:~/src/progs/C++$ ./const_ref_vs_copy_cost > t0: 2010-Aug-12 14:45:04.526660 > t1: 2010-Aug-12 14:45:04.526731 00:00:00.000071 > t2: 2010-Aug-12 14:45:05.054273 00:00:00.527542 > > So 71 microsecs versus 527 millisecs. This uses Boost which gives us nice > granularity of time on Linux. On another OS your mileage may vary. The Emacs > compile-command "works for me" with Boost and Armadillo in standard > places. Adjust as necessary. > > And for what it is worth, "const whenever possible" is item #3 in "Effective > C++" by Meyers, a book Romain and I both cherish. > > Cheers, Dirk > > > // -*- compile-command: "g++ -s -O3 -Wall -pedantic -pipe -o > const_ref_vs_copy_cost const_ref_vs_copy_cost.cpp -lboost_date_time-mt" -*- > > #include <boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp> > #include <armadillo> > #include <iostream> > > using namespace boost::posix_time; // boost timers > using namespace boost::gregorian; > > using namespace arma; > > double doSomeMindlessWork_const_ref(const mat & m) { > int n = m.n_rows; > int k = m.n_cols; > > return m(0,0) + m(n-1, k-1); > } > > double doSomeMindlessWork_copy(mat m) { > int n = m.n_rows; > int k = m.n_cols; > > return m(0,0) + m(n-1, k-1); > } > > > int main() { > const int n = 10000; > > mat m = mat(n, n); > > ptime t0 = microsec_clock::local_time(); > doSomeMindlessWork_const_ref(m); > ptime t1 = microsec_clock::local_time(); > doSomeMindlessWork_copy(m); > ptime t2 = microsec_clock::local_time(); > > std::cout << "t0: " << to_simple_string(t0) << "\n" > << "t1: " << to_simple_string(t1) << " " << > to_simple_string(t1-t0) << "\n" > << "t2: " << to_simple_string(t2) << " " << > to_simple_string(t2-t1) << "\n" > << std::endl; > > return 0; > } > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > -- ____________________ Dr. Baptiste Auguié Departamento de Química Física, Universidade de Vigo, Campus Universitario, 36310, Vigo, Spain tel: +34 9868 18617 http://webs.uvigo.es/coloides ____________________ _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel