Re: Mathematica 20x slower than Java at arithmetic/special functions, is
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- Subject: [mg115881] Re: Mathematica 20x slower than Java at arithmetic/special functions, is
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:22:04 -0500 (EST)
In that case, I suggest writing all your code in Java. Bobby On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:33:09 -0600, Leo Alekseyev <dnquark at gmail.com> wrote: > I was playing around with JLink the other day, and noticed that Java > seems to outperform Mathematica by ~20x in an area where I'd expect > Mathematica to be rather well optimized -- arithmetic involving special > functions. In my particular example, I am simply evaluating a sum of > Bessel functions. I understand that much depends on the underlying > implementation, but I just want to run this by Mathgroup to see if > this is to be expected, or maybe if I'm doing something suboptimal in > Mathematica. Here's the code that I'm running: > > grid1dc[x_, > y_] = (With[{d = 0.1, NN = 50}, > Sum[Re[N[ > d BesselJ[1, 2 Pi d Sqrt[m^2 + n^2]]/ > Sqrt[m^2 + n^2 + 10^-7]] Exp[ > I 2.0 Pi (m x + n y)]], {m, -NN, NN, 1}, {n, -NN, NN, 1}]]) // > N > > and > > gridres1da = > With[{delta = 0.5, xlim = 2.5, ylim = 2.5}, > Table[{x, y, grid1dc[x, y]}, {x, -xlim, xlim, delta}, {y, -ylim, > ylim, delta}]] > > > Java implementation uses Colt and Apache common math libraries for the > Bessels and complex numbers, uses a double for loop, and consistently > runs 15-20 times faster. > > --Leo > -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com