[R] code optimization tips

[jim holtman]

First question is why are you defining the functions within the main
function each time?  Why don't you define them once outside?

On 7/23/07, baptiste Auguié <ba208 at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Being new to R I'm asking for some advice on how to optimize the
> performance of the following piece of code:
>
>
> > alpha_c <- function(lambda=600e-9,alpha_s=1e-14,N=400,spacing=1e-7){
> >
> > k<-2*pi/lambda
> > ri<-c(0,0) # particle at the origin
> > x<-c(-N:N)
> > positions <- function(N) {
> >    reps <- 2*N+1
> >    matrix(c(rep(-N:N, each = reps), rep(-N:N, times = reps)),
> >           nrow = 2, byrow = TRUE)
> > }
> > rj<-positions(N)*spacing # all positions in the 2N x 2N array
> > rj<-rj[1:2,-((dim(rj)[2]-1)/2+1)] # remove rj=(0,0)
> >
> > mod<-function(x){sqrt(x[1]^2+x[2]^2)} # modulus
> >
> > sij <-function(rj){
> > rij=mod(rj-ri)
> > cos_ij=rj[1]/rij
> > sin_ij=rj[2]/rij
> >
> > A<-(1-1i*k*rij)*(3*cos_ij^2-1)*exp(1i*k*rij)/(rij^3)
> > B<-k^2*sin_ij^2*exp(1i*k*rij)/rij
> >
> > sij<-A+B
> > }
> >
> > s_ij<-apply(rj,2,sij)
> > S<-sum(s_ij)
> > alpha_s/(1-alpha_s*S)
> > }
> > alpha_c()
>
>
> This function is to be called for a few tens of values of lambda in a
> 'for' loop, and possibly a couple of different N and spacing (their
> magnitude is typically around the default one).
>
> This can be a bit slow ––– not that I would expect otherwise --- and
> I wonder if there is something I could do to optimize it (vectorize
> with respect to the lambda parameter?, change the units of the
> problem to deal with numbers closer to unity?,...)
>
> Best regards,
>
> baptiste
>
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Jim Holtman
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