Implementation of And (dot) NotEqual

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Implementation of And (dot) NotEqual

Postby Chris McIntosh » August 5th, 2011, 4:10 pm

This is a different issue than APL and strongly typed variables, so I thought I'd post it in a different thread.

I have a VisualAPL non-strongly typed variable of type {cvar} which contains integers. It's shape i s28069 x 15. Missing is untyped and is created with the statement: Missing â†
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Results identical, but algorithm not identical

Postby joe_blaze » August 5th, 2011, 5:34 pm

The expected results should be identical, but the underlying algorithms are not necessarily the same. Time variations for two algorithms can occur depending on the APL implementation.

None-the-less, I found that the processing time for both operations totalled 16ms on my Sony netbook. See the attachment below for the screen capture.

Please see if you can repeat your results.
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Postby Chris McIntosh » August 10th, 2011, 6:50 pm

Hi, Joe,

My results are repeatable in a .apl project file included in a Visual Studio solution.

I noticed your example was done in Cielo Explorer, so just for fun I thought I'd try the ∧.≠ expression, using identical data, in Cielo Explorer.

In my .apl project file, I wrote my data to a VisualAPL component file. I then read this data into Cielo Explorer from that component file.

When I executed the ∧.≠ expression, I got very similar results that you did - code executed in 107 milliseconds.

Is it possible that different code is getting executed in a .apl project file than in Cielo Explorer? Is it possible that writing/reading data somehow changes it?

In Cielo Explorer, ⎕dr of data is 323, while GetType() is a cvar. In the .apl project file, ⎕dr of data is also 323, and GetType() is also a cvar.

Chris
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Postby Chris McIntosh » August 10th, 2011, 7:19 pm

Hi, Joe,

I now have more of a handle on this strangeness.

To see if writing/reading data might affect results, I changed my .apl project code to read in from the VisualAPL component file and do the ∧.≠ When I did this, it performed very quickly, leading me to believe writing/reading data might be changing it.

To be sure, in my .apl file I executed what I thought was original code, but I could not replicate slowness again.

However, I realized I had in fact added two lines, which was greatly affecting performance.

Here is the entire code for this method:

public static float[,] CalcAndAddResults(int[,] inputData)
{
// Declare and initialize variables.
⎕ioâ†
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Run times different if []dr and GetType() used

Postby joe_blaze » August 16th, 2011, 12:58 am

Hi Chris,

Using the VisualAPL Cielo Explorer script to simulate your report I found that the run times were the same (about 100ms or less) with and without the []dr and GetType() statements included in the script.

Possibly the script I wrote is not sufficiently like the calculations and data you are running?

I am investigating the red underlinings in the script, which did not affect the running of it.
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