surprising timings for multiplication of diagonalmatrix and full matrix
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- Subject: [mg124946] surprising timings for multiplication of diagonalmatrix and full matrix
- From: "Eric Michielssen" <emichiel at eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:42:38 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
I'd like to right multiply an n x n diagonal matrix (specified by a vector)
by an n x n full matrix.
I tried 3 ways
A. Brute force
B. Using my own routine in which I was hoping to avoid the (supposedly) n^3
cost of A.
diagtimesmat[diag_, mat_] := MapThread[Times, {diag, mat}];
C. The compiled version of B.
cdiagtimesmat =
Compile[{{diag, _Real, 1}, {mat, _Real, 2}},
Module[{}, MapThread[Times, {diag, mat}]],
CompilationTarget -> "C"];
I get weird timings. For n=250:
n=250;nj=100;
asd=Table[RandomReal[],{n},{n}];
bsd=Table[RandomReal[],{n}];
x=Timing[Do[ed=DiagonalMatrix[bsd].asd,{nj}]][[1]]
y=Timing[Do[ed=diagtimesmat[bsd,asd],{nj}]][[1]]
z=Timing[Do[ed=cdiagtimesmat[bsd,asd],{nj}]][[1]]
Out[415]= 0.359
Out[416]= 6.037
Out[417]= 0.141
My own uncompiled routine is superslow!!! There are warnings about arrays
being unpacked that I did not copy.
For n=500:
In[418]:= n = 500; nj = 100;
asd = Table[RandomReal[], {n}, {n}];
bsd = Table[RandomReal[], {n}];
x = Timing[Do[ed = DiagonalMatrix[bsd].asd, {nj}]][[1]]
y = Timing[Do[ed = diagtimesmat[bsd, asd], {nj}]][[1]]
z = Timing[Do[ed = cdiagtimesmat[bsd, asd], {nj}]][[1]]
Out[421]= 2.777
Out[422]= 1.31
Out[423]= 1.014
This is more reasonable. It remains a bit surprising that the routine that
only touches n^2 numbers is only twice as fast as the one that supposedly
touches n^3 ones. Also, the compiled routine still does not achieve 100
MFlops on my laptop.
How can this behavior be explained? What is the fastest way of doing this?
And how about multiplying a full matrix by a diagonal one?
Thanks!
Eric
Eric Michielssen
Radiation Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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