I find it's disturbing when i'm using D in the program for my thesis. In an ant-based algorithm the basic operation is array access, it will be called even over 10e8 times! So you guys know why i want to turn the check off. Any ideas?

uframer wrote:
> I find it's disturbing when i'm using D in the program for my thesis. In an ant-based algorithm the basic operation is array access, it will be called even over 10e8 times! So you guys know why i want to turn the check off.
> Any ideas? 
> 
> 

Have you tried passing the -release and -O options to the dmd compiler?

Yes, i have tried that, but the effect is unclear. The D program's time
consumption is about 10 times of the cpp one's. Sigh!
"clayasaurus" <clayasaurus@gmail.com>
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> uframer wrote:
>> I find it's disturbing when i'm using D in the program for my thesis. In
>> an ant-based algorithm the basic operation is array access, it will be
>> called even over 10e8 times! So you guys know why i want to turn the
>> check off.
>> Any ideas?
>
> Have you tried passing the -release and -O options to the dmd compiler?

How are you doing it?

Using -release should turn off array boundary checking.  Have you tried -inline as well?

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> Yes, i have tried that, but the effect is unclear. The D program's time consumption is about 10 times of the cpp one's. Sigh!

uframer wrote:
> I find it's disturbing when i'm using D in the program for my thesis. In an ant-based algorithm the basic operation is array access, it will be called even over 10e8 times! So you guys know why i want to turn the check off.
> Any ideas? 
> 
> 
Use a pointer.

for most arrays there is a property .ptr


char[100] mychars;

char*  p = mychars.ptr;

The pointer does not have a bounds check i believe.

"uframer" <uframer@sina100.com.cn> wrote in message news:d71btq$1s3u$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Yes, i have tried that, but the effect is unclear. The D program's time consumption is about 10 times of the cpp one's. Sigh!

Compile with -profile and look at trace.log to see where the time goes. You'll probably want to run profiled builds on smaller problems than a release build since tracing adds lots of overhead to the app.

Thank you all!
I think i have fixed the problem.
"uframer" <uframer@sina100.com.cn> дÈëÏûÏ¢ÐÂÎÅ:d70qtf$1gv$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>I find it's disturbing when i'm using D in the program for my thesis. In an ant-based algorithm the basic operation is array access, it will be called even over 10e8 times! So you guys know why i want to turn the check off.
> Any ideas?
> 

In article <d720ps$2pcd$1@digitaldaemon.com>, uframer says...
>
>Thank you all!
>I think i have fixed the problem.
>"uframer" <uframer@sina100.com.cn> дÈëÏûÏ¢ÐÂÎÅ:d70qtf$1gv$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>>I find it's disturbing when i'm using D in the program for my thesis. In an ant-based algorithm the basic operation is array access, it will be called even over 10e8 times! So you guys know why i want to turn the check off.
>> Any ideas?

Please, share your solution.  We'd all like to learn how to better overcome such problems in our own code. :)

- EricAnderton at yahoo

In article <d725kb$2tuf$1@digitaldaemon.com>, pragma says...
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>In article <d720ps$2pcd$1@digitaldaemon.com>, uframer says...
>>
>>Thank you all!
>>I think i have fixed the problem.
>>"uframer" <uframer@sina100.com.cn> дÈëÏûÏ¢ÐÂÎÅ:d70qtf$1gv$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>>>I find it's disturbing when i'm using D in the program for my thesis. In an ant-based algorithm the basic operation is array access, it will be called even over 10e8 times! So you guys know why i want to turn the check off.
>>> Any ideas?
>
>Please, share your solution.  We'd all like to learn how to better overcome such problems in our own code. :)
>
>- EricAnderton at yahoo

Yes - and also please post the two sets of source code along with the different performance measurements you got. This would be interesting to many of us as well.

- Dave

Oops, i'm really a bad coder!
I think i should apologize for the blame on D. The performance problem does
not mainly come from difference between D and Cpp, but from a subtle
structure difference between the two versions that would alter the ants'
random behavior significantly.:(
And , -release helps, it reduces the time consumption by about 30%.