Re: Optimizing a function?
* carl:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no> wrote in message
news:hg0c1j$dke$1@news.eternal-september.org...
* carl:
I have a function that gets called for 512*512*350 times. In this
function there is a loop that gets run each time the function is called:
myFun(VectorType point) {
std::vector<MyObj> & myobjs =this->FindMyObjs(point);
int num = myobjs.size();
for (int i=0; i<num; i++) {
// Do stuff with each neighbor
}
}
Where FindMyObjs(point) is a function that looks up the point in:
std::map<int, std::vector<MyObj>> m_myMap;
which has been created before the program is run:
std::vector<MyObj> FindMyObjs(VectorType point) {
int key = computeKey(point);
return m_myMap[key];
}
The computeKey(point) looks like this:
unsigned int computeKey(VectorType location ) {
unsigned int key = 0;
int x_dir = floor((location[0]/m_cellSize[0]));
int y_dir = floor((location[1]/m_cellSize[1]))*m_split;
int z_dir = floor((location[2]/m_cellSize[2]))*m_split*m_split;
key = x_dir + y_dir + z_dir;
return key;
}
The number of elements in the std::vector<MyObj> is fixed. When the
vectors contains 216 elements the program takes around 50 seconds to
complete (on a 3 GHZ machine with 6GB RAM and code compiled for
release, using Visual Studio 2008).
I have tried to remove the code from the while body but is has almost
no effect on the computation time.
Am I missing something very basic c++ optimization skills there or is
the program not meant to run faster on this machine?
I have made sure that only references to the already existing data
structures are used. Could it be the computeKey (3 floor operations)
that is expensive when called so many times?
It's all very roundabout.
Try an array.
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
Why should that be a solution?
Because, as I wrote, your code is very roundabout.
And considering that you didn't think of posting code that we could analyze, I'm
pretty sure that all that silly complexity isn't there because it made sense.
So go for the very simplest solution. Look up KISS in Wikipedia and substitute
real terms for their censored-for-US-readership explanation. Then just do it.
I only create the data once before
running the actual algorithm and all lookups are made using references
(pointers).
In that case, why don't you just put it in an array.
Cheers & hth., but you have to invest some work yourself!
- Alf
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