Questions tagged [performance]
Performance is a subset of Optimization: performance is the goal when you want the execution time of your program or routine to be optimal.
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Definitional Returns. Solved. Mostly
I have made the bold claim that a longstanding problem in Rebol is "now solved"...that of "definitional returns".
But of course, such claims need some peer review, and there's always some new trick ...
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Multiplying big numbers using Karatsuba's method
The Karatsuba algorithm, first published in 1962, aims to speed up the multiplication of big numbers by reducing the number of 'single-digit-multiplications' involved.
Because of its complexity (...
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Function that recursively downloads entire directory is slow
I created this function to recursively copy an entire directory from an FTP server. It works just fine except that it is about 4 times slower than using FileZilla to do the same operation. It takes ...
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Making this python chess engine faster
I've implemented a chess engine using the python chess move generation library (which I assumed to be reasonably fast), and have implemented various optimisation techniques for search and move ...
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Frequency analysis for simultaneous dice rolls
My professor told me to optimize my perl code, but he wouldn't tell me what exactly - just make it simpler.
I changed some little things but nothing major. Am I missing something?
The task was:
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Unity3D shader for rendering 2D sprites with a pseudo-glitch effect
I'm making a puzzle game in Unity with sprite-based graphics. When the game is paused, I want to hide most game elements, because I don't want the player to be able to pause and leisurely think about ...
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Codewars: N-dimensional Von Neumann Neighborhood in a matrix
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For creating this challenge on Codewars I need a very performant
function that calculates Von Neumann Neighborhood in a N-dimensional
array. This function will be called about 2000 times
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Modeling tabular structure in MSSQL to store data like Excel sheet applying Column inheritance
I've created this database structure to store tabular information (it's a simplification of my real structure but enough to show the point). In it I have Sheets and ...
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Perl gradient noise generator
I'm working on 2-D top-down graphics engine, and need a way to simulate clouds. My idea was that I could create a layer comprised of a matrix of rectangles whose alpha value would be picked from a ...
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Read quantization tables from JPEG files
I'm developing an application that will hide information inside the quantization tables of JPEG files. It's called DQTsteg, if you want to know more about what I'm attempting to do.
Right now I'm ...
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Stable variation of built-in sort
Ruby's built-in sorts are unstable. The stable_sort gem monkey-patches Ruby's built-in library to have stable sorts which include nearly all the functionality of the built-in sorts, but with the ...
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Red-black tree appears to be slower than std::multimap
I've written a red-black tree in C as an exercise. The tree works and it is not bad, but it is about 10% slower than std::multimap from libstdc++ which I'm ...
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Optimizing bit-matching performance using AVX compiler intrinsic
We are working on a complicated math problem, very detailed question with description of the problem is here: C++ multi-threaded determination of curling numbers in vectors.
That code is now converted ...
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C# Generic high performance vectorized math operations
I'm writing a library which simplifies the usage of intrinsics in C#.
It's a generic library which supports all numeric types.
The goal of this library is to perform these operations at the highest ...
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Code optimisation: Converting dataframe to numpy's ndarray
I am working with a dataframe of over 21M rows.
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Chart Based Animations In Excel VBA
I've been working on re-writing comfortablydrei's answer to this PPCG Question regarding creating a illusion animation in pure Excel VBA. So far, I've been able to rewrite the code to function in VBA, ...
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How to make my groupby and transpose operations efficient?
I have a DataFrame of size 3,745,802 rows and 30 columns. I would like to perform certain groupby and ...
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Julia set in Julia (and other fractals)
I've made the following to draw a series of zooming in images of a fractal.
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How to speed up simple linear algebra optimization probelm in Julia?
I implemented the LSDD changepoint detection method decribed in [1] in Julia, to see if I could make it faster than the existing python implementation [2], which is based on a grid search that looks ...
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Generating integer partitions
I've tried to implement integer partition algorithm as described in blogpost below (author implemented it in Python):
Generating integer partitions
I'm still trying to learn best practices in ...
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Reading sparse matrix from binary file
I have binary files containing sparse matrices. Their format is:
number of rows int
length of a row int
column index int
value float
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Asyncio HTTP Request Queue
I wrote a simple sitemap.xml checker using asyncio and aiohttp. I followed the documentation demonstrating the producer/consumer pattern. However, I noticed that as the URLs scale larger, it seems to ...
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Android component animatable on its height
I'd like to have a code review for a component which is supposed to be animatable on its height. It's supposed to be a transitioning element.
I find it quite laggy on my phone.
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Calculating T-Test within Large Pandas Dataframes
The below code runs a t-statistic within a large dataframe (rnadf) based on masked values from another dataframe (cnvdf_maked). ...
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Pseudo-parallel depth-first search
I'm writing a small program that generates a file containing an adjancency matrix, it then reads from that file, constructs a graph and does something like a parallel depth-first search (dfs) on it.
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Parsing Lua 5.2 strings with patterns
I wrote some code to parse Lua 5.2 strings in Lua 5.1, using patterns. It works perfectly as far as I tested.
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Fowler–Noll–Vo hash function in Lua
I recently coded this FNV-1a hash function in Lua. Are there any apparent performance improvements that could be implemented?
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Translating CFRM algorithm from Java to Clojure and improving performance
Counterfactual Regret Minimization is an algorithm that can be used to find the Nash Equilibrium for games of incomplete information. I have tried to adapt the exercise from here to Clojure. You can ...
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Implementing recursive filters with Haskell/Repa
I recently learned Haskell, and I am trying to apply it to the code I use in order to get a feeling for the language.
I really like the Repa library since I manipulate a lot of multi-dimensional data....
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Improving performance of radix sort
I am trying to optimize the following (now C) radix sort code for use in my game engine library. The basis for this code was inspired by this youtube video on a C++ implementation called ...
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Multithreaded pathfinding in Unity C#
I've tried to implement multithreaded pathfinding in an attempt to increase performance, but if anything, performance seems to actually decrease when I enable multithreading.
Is there anything I ...
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Pi Calculator Using BBP (Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe) - Written in Cython With MPFR
I wrote a Pi Calculator using the BBP Algorithm in Cython. My specific goals are make the code more legible and more performant. This is a purely academic script in order to teach me how to implement ...
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Neural Network Written in Python is Extremely Slow
I coded a basic feedforward neural network with all pure python with the exception of numpy in order to better understand how neural networks work. It works, but the only problem is it is extremely ...
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Get exactly `n` unique randomly sampled rows per category in a Dataframe
I want to get exactly n unique randomly sampled rows per category in a Dataframe. This proved to be involve more steps than the description would lead you to ...
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Small Automatic Differentiation Library
Introduction
As a programming exercise I recently wrote this automatic differentiation library based on forward accumulation. It should offer a simple way to create mathematical functions whose ...
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Extract data from API using VBA & XML (Performance)
EDIT: Added a block with the raw code at the bottom (suggested by a friendly user)
First post here. I sincerely hope that I am doing everything by the book. Also, I want to thank you in advance for ...
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4×4 cofactor in SSE
The cofactor of a 4×4 matrix can be used to convert a "regular geometry" matrix into the matrix that transforms the normals. It's an alternative to the common inverse-transpose pattern. In this post I ...
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Tensorflow loop to analyze gradients derived from MRI and PET images
The code shown below takes the partial derivative of each pixel of the output fused image of a neural network with respect to input image of the neural network using tensorflow's ...
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Fast Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium simulation
I was very bored over one of my breaks this year, so I built a Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium simulator for two unrelated alleles of the same gene. Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is when there is no evolution,...
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Optimizing Graph Algorithms for Floyd Warshall and Johnson Algorithm
I am trying to implement and compare Floyd Warshall and Johnson Algorithm(for Sparse Graphs). I have written the following code which produces correct output values for the all pair shortest paths. ...
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Speeding up the implementation of Stochastic Gradient Ascent in Python
I am implementing a time-dependent Recommender System which applies BPR (Bayesian Personalized Ranking), where Stochastic Gradient Ascent is used to learn the parameters of the model. Such that, one ...
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Python code to calculate STM CRC32
I have code to calculate STM CRC32 in python. It works well but I'm shocked from time when I see how much it takes. Namely calculating for 5120 bytes takes about 20ms (or even more)! Now I'm thinking ...
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WebPage LogReader class - Parallel DNS w/timeout for computer IP's and domains from log scrape
This is a namespace to read a bunch of events from a log file and display them in a table on a webpage, some additional data (computer domain and IP address) is also pulled in from DNS. I am mostly ...
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Building a form for rebooting many network devices
I have several IP based devices that, due to building maintenance, occasionally lose their communication with the other devices. Normally you'd have to find the device IP, go to its control page and ...
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Simulation of a mechanical arm
The code that I am doing is to simulate a scenario where a mechanical arm search pieces closer and these pieces selected the mechanical arm leaves in a position defined closer.
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Simple HTTP router package
I have created a router/micro-framework. I have split my code into multiple files by responsibility. All files are in the same directory. Would you recommend any way of improving it ? The most ...
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Assembling and traversing a graph, given a list of items and parent pointers
I've written a function which takes input such as this:
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Multiple 0-1 knapsack
I have a problem were the time in minutes of N songs are given and I have to write the maximum number of time in K CDs.
Input description
The first input line consists of two positive integers N e ...
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Kernel density regression in Julia
Here is a naive implementation of a kernel density regression algorithm in Julia.
The code works, but there is quite a bit of room for improvement though. First, there is not an optimal bandwidth ...
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