Re: Locating common subexpressions
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- Subject: [mg69523] Re: Locating common subexpressions
- From: carlos at colorado.edu
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:57:08 -0400 (EDT)
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Daniel Lichtblau wrote:
> carlos at colorado.edu wrote:
> > The strangest thing about the behvior of Simplify in my
> > previous post can be seen at a glance:
> >
> > R = (3 + 3*a^2 + Sqrt[5 + 6*a + 5*a^2] + a*(4 + Sqrt[5 + 6*a +
> > 5*a^2]))/6
> > R = Simplify[R,a>=0]
> > (3 + 3*a^2 + Sqrt[5 + 6*a + 5*a^2] + a*(4 + Sqrt[5 + 6*a + 5*a^2]))/6
> >
> > The subexpression Sqrt[5 + 6*a + 5*a^2] is not located. Ideally
> > Simplify should right away replace that by a temp, say t$, and
> > get to work on
> >
> > (3 + 3*a^2 + t$ + a*(4 + t$))/6
> >
> > where from the assumptions, t$>0 and real. Of course the leaf count
> > of t$ should influence subsequent transformations.
> > This initial pass is useful in complicated expressions that come, eg,
> > from an equation solver since messy subexpressions like the
> > discriminant may appear in several places. I had some of those
> > with leaf counts in the tens of thousands.
> >
> > Locating common subs is of course an key task of optimizing
> > compilers. Simplification and compilation share some objectives,
> > although compilers have to deal with timing and side effects. In fact
> > I wouldnt mind at all if Simplify would return a compound expression:
> >
> > Block [{t$}, t$=Sqrt[5 + 6*a + 5*a^2]; (3 + 4*a + 3*a^2 + (1 +
> > a)*t$)/6 ]
> >
> > since this is perfect for documentation, or conversion to low-level
> > code.
>
> If you want CSE you can use OptimizeExpression in Experimental` context.
>
> In[8]:= InputForm[Experimental`OptimizeExpression[(3 + 3*a^2 + Sqrt[5 +
> 6*a + 5*a^2] + a*(4 + Sqrt[5 + 6*a + 5*a^2]))/6]]
>
> Out[8]//InputForm=
> Experimental`OptimizedExpression[Block[{$$25, $$27, $$28, $$29, $$30},
> $$25 = a^2; $$27 = 6*a; $$28 = 5*$$25; $$29 = 5 + $$27 + $$28;
> $$30 = Sqrt[$$29]; (3 + 3*$$25 + $$30 + a*(4 + $$30))/6]]
>
> This sort of thing is not a part of the Simplify "charter", but is very
> much the intent of OptimizeExpression. As you might suspect, this is
> meant for reforming expressions prior to conversion to lower level
> languages such as C or the byte code of Mathematica's Compile virtual
> machine.
>
>
> Daniel Lichtblau
> Wolfram Research
Is this facility available in 5.0? I havent upgraded to 5.2. Would be
interesting to combine this and Simplify, and eventually extend to
Modules. I believe that would be unique to Mathematica.
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