Re: Problem with compile fct. and Thread
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- Subject: [mg124578] Re: Problem with compile fct. and Thread
- From: "Oleksandr Rasputinov" <oleksandr_rasputinov at hmamail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:06:19 -0500 (EST)
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:10:01 -0000, kristoph <kristophs.post at web.de> wrote: > Hi > > I get an error when trying to compute the following "toy" code: > > (*the compile function*) > test=Compile[{{bw,_Real},{regData,_Real,1},{leg,_Integer}}, > Module[{h,tab2,xMat}, > h=1; > tab2=Table[(regData[[i]]-regData[[j]]),{i,1,leg},{j,1,leg}]; > xMat=Thread[{1.,tab2[[h]]}] > ] > ,CompilationOptions->{"InlineExternalDefinitions"->True}]; > > (*generating random sample data*) > leg=100; > data=RandomReal[{0,1},leg]; > bw=.1; > > (*using the compile function with the above generated data, produces > the error*) > test[bw, data, leg] > > The function "test" works fine if I construct the matrix "xMat" using > the function Table. However, I prefer Thread because it is twice as > fast. > > I just do not see where my mistake is. I do appreciate any > suggestions. Thanks in advance. > Cheers, > Kris > The problem again is with the types of various expressions, but this time it is caused by a call out of the compiled code in evaluating Thread[...]. In such cases one must explicitly specify the return type one expects for expressions matching a given pattern using the third argument of Compile, which in this case should be {{_Thread, _Real, 2}}: test = Compile[ {{bw, _Real}, {regData, _Real, 1}, {leg, _Integer}}, Module[{h = 1, tab2 = {{0., 0.}}, xMat = {{0., 0.}}}, tab2 = Table[ regData[[i]] - regData[[j]], {i, 1, leg}, {j, 1, leg} ]; xMat = Thread[{1., tab2[[h]]}] ], {{_Thread, _Real, 2}}, CompilationOptions -> {"InlineExternalDefinitions" -> True} ]; A better way to write it is to avoid the call out of compiled code altogether. There also isn't any reason to use xMat here and it introduces a needless copy operation on the final result, so one may as well remove this too, ending up with the following: test2 = Compile[ {{bw, _Real}, {regData, _Real, 1}, {leg, _Integer}}, Module[{h = 1, tab2 = {{0., 0.}}}, tab2 = Table[ regData[[i]] - regData[[j]], {i, 1, leg}, {j, 1, leg} ]; Transpose[{ ConstantArray[1., Length@tab2[[h]]], tab2[[h]] }] ], CompilationOptions -> {"InlineExternalDefinitions" -> True} ]; As is probably clear by now, the use of compiled code is not without its difficulties. (Also, incidentally, "InlineExternalDefinitions" -> True doesn't serve any purpose for this example, but I left it in anyway.)