Re: Optimize integer program in speed

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Tue, 8 Jun 2010 03:36:59 CST
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* Saeed Amrollahi, on 07.06.2010 17:09:

On Jun 7, 11:14 am, Keith H Duggar<dug...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

On Jun 6, 6:15 pm, Saeed Amrollahi<amrollahi.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 5, 11:50 pm, albert kao<albertk...@gmail.com> wrote:
3. There is no performance gain by rewriting bigger() with function
object. Calling member function is almost as efficient as
calling global function.


That is wrong. For most implementations of the STL you will find
that function objects can be /faster/ than passing free function
references/pointers. In the ops case

     struct Bigger
     {
        bool operator ( ) ( int i ) const { return abs(i)>= D ; }
     } ;
     ...
        count += count_if(diff + 1, diff + N, Bigger());

is likely to be much faster than

     bool bigger(int i) { return abs(i)>= D; }
     ...
        count += count_if(diff + 1, diff + N, bigger);

Also, on many platforms

     struct Bigger
     {
        bool operator ( ) ( int i ) const { return i>= D || i<= -
D ; }
     } ;

will be faster still. Give it a try and you will see. By the way,
if you put the count_if into a loop you will get better sampling
and higher signal to noise. For example:

     int count = 0 ;
     for ( int k = 0 ; k< 1024 ; ++k ) {
          count += count_if(diff + 1, diff + N, Bigger()) ;
     }

KHD


Hi Keith

You are right. Of course we take advantage of inline expansion of
operator(). In this case we have %25 performance improvement.
For non-inline defintion (I mean defining function outside
structure), the results are identical.
The interesting question is:
In case #1, when I declare bigger() with inline specifier, there is
no performance improvement. Why?


The formal argument type 'Bigger' (it doesn't matter if it really turns out as
'Bigger const&', say) uniquely identifies the function to be executed, while a
formal argument of type 'bool (*)(int)' might be any function of that type.

For a simple optimizer how much information the argument type carries may
influence how and what it optimizes.

But while that at least sounds plausible, it is in the end a Quality of
Implementation issue.

Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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