Re: MMA 5.1 Integrals
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- Subject: [mg52760] Re: MMA 5.1 Integrals
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- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:21:52 -0500 (EST)
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Egbert Kankeleit wrote:
> Someone with elitist "insight" can understand the philosophy
> of costly updates? :
>
> Example (win2000, 850 MHz):
>
> i) Timing[ FourierTransform[Exp[-(x + 1)^2] , x, X];]
>
> ii) Timing[ Integrate[Exp[-(x + 1)^2 + I *x *X],
> {x, -\[Infinity],\[Infinity]}];]
>
> iii) Timing[ LaplaceTransform[Exp[-(x + 1)^2], x, X];]
>
> results respectively:
> MMA 4.2, MMA 5.0 MMA5.1
>
> i) 1.4 Infinity 117. seconds
> ii) 1.0 45. 1.9
> iii) 0.15 1.0 1.0
>
> WRI, quo vadis?
>
> kankel
>
>
You must have very old PC or something?
I am running XP, and I tried the third test, and I get (my
PC is almost 3 years old), this is Mathematica 5.1
d = Table[Timing[LaplaceTransform[Exp[-(x + 1)^2], x, X]][[1, 1]]
, {i, 100}];
Mean[d]
0.10094
Min[d]
0.078
Max[d]
0.11
so I get something faster than 4.2
You have to understand that the FIRST time you run the
command, it can take as much as 10 times longer, since
it will load the code to memory when needed. so get
an accourate test, try the command once, then the
second time will be the actual timing results you want to
look at.
I found Mathematica to be very fast actually.