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Re: Fast shear [message #29122]

Tue, 05 February 2002 09:42

Wayne Landsman
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Registered: January 1997

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the_cacc@hotmail.com wrote

> Anyone know a way of doing the following as fast as possible:
> for i = 0, n-1 DO array[*,i] = SHIFT(array[*,i],delta[i])
> where delta is an INTARR.

Well, I think a loop over rows is necessary, but the speed can be vastly
improved by using the folllowing IDL maxim for efficient programming,
which gets my vote in the "IDL maxim most deserving of wider
recognition" category.

"Avoid the use of an asterisk on the left-hand side of an assignment."

which in this case means to rewrite the assignment as

for i = 0, n-1 DO array[0,i] = SHIFT(array[*,i],delta[i])

For a fltarr(2048,2048) on my Solaris machine running V5.5, I find a
factor of 15 improvement in speed.

I believe that one uses an asterisk on the left hand side, that
IDL first creates a temporary variable, places the contents of the right
hand side into this temporary variable, and then places the temporary
variable back into array. By specifying array[0,i] one directly
gives the starting location where to place the contents of the right
hand side.

--Wayne Landsman
landsman@mpb.gsfc.nasa.gov

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