Re: Timing of looping operators
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- Subject: [mg62425] Re: [mg62416] Timing of looping operators
- From: Pratik Desai <pdesai1 at umbc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:33:23 -0500 (EST)
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dh wrote:
>Hello,
>The Mathematica gospel tells you that you should NOT use loops because
>it is inefficient.
>Well consider the following examples and their times:
>
>n=10^6;
>d=Table[i,{i,n}];
>fun[x_]:=x;
>
>a) Timing[fun & /@ d;] needs 0.8 sec
>b) Timing[Scan[fun, d]] needs 1 second
>c) Timing[Do[f[i], {i, n}];] needs 0.7 sec
>
>a) applies the function and creates a new list. b) does not create a new
>list -- but it is slower! And finally c) the loop is fastest!!!
>
>If you change the function to: f[x_]:=x^2, the times are even more striking:
>
>0.8, 2.4, 0.7
>it seems like in a and c the function evaluation takes negliable time
>compared to the loop construct, but not so in b.
>
>has anybody an explanation???
>
>Daniel
>
>
>
Looking at your expression, one can just use table alone
d=Timing[Table[i,{i,n}];]
>>{0.06 Second, Null}
In mathematica, IMHO, table is the primary loop construct
Hope this helps
Pratik .
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Pratik Desai
Graduate Student
UMBC
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 410 455 8134
- References:
- Timing of looping operators
- From: dh <dh@metrohm.ch>
- Timing of looping operators