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New spherical functions not efficient

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  • Subject: [mg91058] New spherical functions not efficient
  • From: Antonio <aneves at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:00:33 -0400 (EDT)

Dear All,

When using the new built-in spherical functions (SphericalBesselJ and
SphericalHankelH1, my mathematica programs slowed quit a bit.

Writting out the following code:
In[1]:= Do[y=RandomReal[{0,10}];n=RandomInteger[{1,20}];Sqrt[(y \
\[Pi])/2](BesselJ[n+1/2,y]+\[ImaginaryI] \
BesselY[n+1/2,y]),{20000}]//Timing
Do[y=RandomReal[{0,10}];n=RandomInteger[{1,20}];y \
SphericalHankelH1[n,y],{20000}]//Timing

Out[1]= {0.951,Null}

Out[2]= {2.823,Null}

We can see that the new functions are slower to evaluate. Is something
wrong? For now I will stick with the faster code for the spherical
functions.

Antonio


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