bugGNU Octave - Bugs: bug #64962, Avoid unessecary copy of dim_vector

 
 

bug #64962: Avoid unessecary copy of dim_vector

Submitter:  Petter <petter>
Submitted:  Sat 02 Dec 2023 02:19:24 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Interpreter Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Performance
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  10.1.0 (current default) Planned Release:  10.1.0 (current default)
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Wed 13 Dec 2023 10:03:08 PM UTC, comment #5: 

I found a few more instances and changed them here: https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/60c1b3ffd859.

Rik <rik5>
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Wed 13 Dec 2023 08:51:44 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I pushed the following changeset on default:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/2f3b54f81947

 John W. Eaton <jwe>
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Wed 13 Dec 2023 06:21:04 PM UTC, comment #3: 

I don't think this was a comprehensive review.  Rather, Petter found an instance which could clearly be improved and so made the change.

If there is a simple way to find these instances with grep or some other tool I think we should convert more of the code base to do this.

I've never been able to get a good profiling run on Octave to find the real hotspots.  But, I always do find that we are creating and destroying a lot of temporary objects.  Eliminating that should help.

 Rik <rik5>
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Wed 13 Dec 2023 05:59:17 PM UTC, comment #2: 

This change seems OK to me, but why change only these two instances?  There are probably hundreds more uses of local dim_vector objects that could be changed in the same way.

 John W. Eaton <jwe>
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Tue 12 Dec 2023 05:52:41 AM UTC, comment #1: 

@Petter: I made a few changes to the commit message to follow Octave guidelines and checked in your change on the default branch here: https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/324c67c33dbd.

Thank you for the patch.  Marking as Fixed and closing report.

 Rik <rik5>
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Sat 02 Dec 2023 02:19:24 PM UTC, original submission:  


There is only a need of one copy in the first case and
none in the second.

* mx-inlinces.cc: Use ref to avoid copies.


A dim_vector ctor uses malloc, which slows things down quite a lot when using do_mm_binary_op() or do_mm_inplace_op(), for small matrices.

 Petter <petter>

 

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file #55388:  octave_32768.patch added by petter (1KiB - text/x-patch)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2023-12-12 rik5 StatusNone Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Fixed ReleaseNone 10.1.0 (current default)
        Planned ReleaseNone 10.1.0 (current default)
    2023-12-02 petter Attached File- Added octave_32768.patch, #55388

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