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reply Eduardo Cavazos <wayo.cavazos gmail.com> writes:
Hello,

Here's a short program which compares via 'benchmark' two ways to 
perform element-wise addition of two arrays.

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import std.stdio ;
import std.date ;
import std.random ;

void main ()
{
   double [2] a ;
   double [2] b = [ uniform ( 0.0 , 1.0 ) , uniform ( 0.0 , 1.0 ) ] ;
   double [2] c = [ uniform ( 0.0 , 1.0 ) , uniform ( 0.0 , 1.0 ) ] ;

   void add ( double [2] a , double [2] b , double [2] c )
   {
     a[0] = b[0] + c[0] ;
     a[1] = b[1] + c[1] ;
   }

   void f0 () { add ( a , b , c ) ; }

   void f1 () { a[] = b[] + c[] ; }

   writeln ( benchmark ! ( f0 , f1 ) ( 10_000_000 ) ) ;
}
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On my system, it seems that 'f1' is slower than 'f0'. Let me know if 
somethings not right with the test program or if there's a better way to 
do the benchmark.

Anywho my question is, in principle, isn't enough information available 
to the compiler such that it can make 'f1' be as fast as 'f0'? I'm just 
wondering if I'll need to make functions like the above 'add' which are 
specific for 2 and 3 element arrays.

Ed
Aug 19 2010
parent Don <nospam nospam.com> writes:
Eduardo Cavazos wrote:
 Hello,
 
 Here's a short program which compares via 'benchmark' two ways to 
 perform element-wise addition of two arrays.
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 import std.stdio ;
 import std.date ;
 import std.random ;
 
 void main ()
 {
   double [2] a ;
   double [2] b = [ uniform ( 0.0 , 1.0 ) , uniform ( 0.0 , 1.0 ) ] ;
   double [2] c = [ uniform ( 0.0 , 1.0 ) , uniform ( 0.0 , 1.0 ) ] ;
 
   void add ( double [2] a , double [2] b , double [2] c )
   {
     a[0] = b[0] + c[0] ;
     a[1] = b[1] + c[1] ;
   }
 
   void f0 () { add ( a , b , c ) ; }
 
   void f1 () { a[] = b[] + c[] ; }
 
   writeln ( benchmark ! ( f0 , f1 ) ( 10_000_000 ) ) ;
 }
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 On my system, it seems that 'f1' is slower than 'f0'. Let me know if 
 somethings not right with the test program or if there's a better way to 
 do the benchmark.
That's correct. There is a substantial overhead in the current implementation of array operations. My guess is that the array length needs to be about 10 or so before array ops start to win.
 Anywho my question is, in principle, isn't enough information available 
 to the compiler such that it can make 'f1' be as fast as 'f0'? I'm just 
 wondering if I'll need to make functions like the above 'add' which are 
 specific for 2 and 3 element arrays.
Yes, it's a simple implementation issue, which is on the TODO list. It shouldn't be terribly difficult to do.
Aug 19 2010