Steve, how you handle with the memory limitations in your system ?
For example, how you handle 20 GB of data in a machine with 4 GB of RAM
?
-- Amanda Osvaldo
On Thu, 2017-03-02 at 15:14 -0500, sho...@energetiq.com wrote:
> I have done a lot of this kind of thing in scilab and other similar
> tools. A key point - If the algorithm is naturally vectorizable,
> there probably won't be much benefit in further optimization.
> However it it inherently is not vectorizable then the key
> calculation can be written as a callable fortran (my favorite)
> subroutine. Use Scilab for the I/O and visualization; write the
> compute intensive core in fortran.
>
>
>
> While I'm on the subject, the old Intersci system was a very
> convenient way to automatically generate the interface routine
> between scilab and an arbitrary fortran subroutine. There seems
>
> not to be recent documentation on doing the same (specifically for
> fortran). Or am I missing something? I've had to use the "call"
> interface to use old code. Is there a better way?
>
>
>
> Thanks -
>
> Steve
>
>
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> Ricardo Fabbri ---03/02/2017 01:30:36 PM---Speaking from experience:
> It is worth mentioning that in many ways performance is not critical
> Ricardo Fabbri ---03/02/2017 01:30:36 PM---Speaking from experience:
> It is worth mentioning that in many ways performance is not critical
>
>
>
> From: Ricardo Fabbri <rfab...@gmail.com>
>
> To: Users mailing list for Scilab <users@lists.scilab.org>
>
> Date: 03/02/2017 01:30 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [Scilab-users] Matlab vs Scilab perf
>
> Sent by: "users" <users-boun...@lists.scilab.org>
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>
>
>
>
>
>
> Speaking from experience:
>
>
>
> It is worth mentioning that in many ways performance is not critical
>
> for a "lab" language like Scilab or Matlab. It is just an extremely
>
> simple language to test concepts and algorithms at a very small scale
>
> of granularity. The real crucial factor for Scilab or Matlab is the
>
> GUI for exploring data and developing algorithms interactively. Once
>
> you have a working solution, you'll fit it inside a bigger and more
>
> relevant
>
> system by porting promptly to a language like C++ for scalability and
> speed.
>
>
>
> Just use Scilab for what its worth, don't obsess with speed, even
>
> though it is important.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> --
>
> Dr Ricardo Fabbri
>
> Professor of Computer Engineering
>
> GNU/Linux registered user #175401
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> rfabbri.github.io
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> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Samuel Gougeon <sgoug...@free.fr>
> wrote:
>
> > Le 02/03/2017 à 16:29, Michael Benguigui a écrit :
>
> >
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > As a Scilab user, I am currently fighting to reach Matlab
> performance..My
>
> > current scilab program takes 4x more than my matlab's vesion. Here
> are some
>
> > instructions requiring some optimizations.. If you have an idea...
> thanks a
>
> > lot!
>
> >
>
> > All times are cumulative times after the execution (iterations)
>
> > I used the Matlab and Scilab profilers
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > Congratulations for using the new Scilab profiler :)
>
> > Could you post please the file of results? It is indeed hard to
> answer
>
> > without having more information either on a runnable part of your
> code, or
>
> > about results you got with the profiler.
>
> >
>
> > Regards
>
> > Samuel
>
> >
>
> >
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