Strange timing behavior of Integrate[]
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- Subject: [mg8341] Strange timing behavior of Integrate[]
- From: carlos at mars.Colorado.EDU (Carlos A. Felippa)
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 02:22:34 -0400
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I am doing an acoustic radiation study with Mma 3.0 in which I have to
evaluate thousands of trigonometric integrals of the form sin[phi]^m*cos[phi]^n
over 0->2 Pi for a wide range of integers m and n. I noticed that some
combinations took enormous times to evaluate forcing aborts.
I traced it to the phenomenon exemplified by the equivalent commands
Print [Integrate[(a+b)^12*Cos[phi]^8*Sin[phi]^8,{phi,0,2*Pi}]//Timing];
Print [(a+b)^12*Integrate[Cos[phi]^8*Sin[phi]^8,{phi,0,2*Pi}]//Timing];
The result is obviously the same. However, On a Mac 8500/120,
the first form takes 4.85 seconds while the second completes in 0.53 Seconds.
For more complex factors the time ratio may reach into the thousands.
What is going on? It seems as if Integrate[] cannot identify invariant
expressions.