Re: How do little quickest
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- Subject: [mg93551] Re: How do little quickest
- From: Scott Hemphill <hemphill at hemphills.net>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:10:17 -0500 (EST)
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Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com> writes:
[snip]
> I missed a few optimizations, both in speed and memory.
>
> For speed, it turns out that NextPrime computations were the bottleneck.
> A bit surprising, since that's not in an inner loop, but there it is.
> Easy to repair though, because we get those just by searching the sieve
> for the next position that still has a zero.
>
> For memory I did two things. One is to combine everything into one
> Compile. This is because Compile has, in effect, call-by-value
> semantics. Thus the second invocation would start by making a copy of
> the large sieve, in effect doubling memory use. The second change was to
> not use list operations that involve Take/Drop. This unfortunately makes
> things a bit slower than otherwise, but also avoids making copies of
> large arrays.
>
> Running on a 64 bit machine, I can now handle at least n=29.
How much VM do you have? What operating system are you using, and what
version of Mathematica? On my 64 bit machine I get:
In[1]:= $Version
Out[1]= 5.1 for Linux (October 25, 2004)
In[2]:= minprods2 = Compile[{{n,_Integer}}, Module[
{fx, len=2^(n-1), pr=3, start=2, logpr,
n2, parts, min=100.},
fx = Table[0.,{len}];
While[start<=len,
logpr = Log[N[pr]];
Do [fx[[j]] += logpr, {j,start,len,pr}];
While[start<=len && fx[[start]]!=0., start++];
pr = 2*start-1;
];
Round[2*Exp[Table[
n2 = 2^(j-1);
min = 100.;
Do[min = Min[min,fx[[k]]+fx[[2*n2-k+1]]], {k,n2}];
min
, {j,n-1}]]]
]]
In[3]:= Timing[minprods2[29]]
No more memory available.
Mathematica kernel has shut down.
Try quitting other applications and then retry.
Scott
--
Scott Hemphill hemphill at alumni.caltech.edu
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