I have written an app that does astronomical calculations like that , Sun and 
Moon rise and set and location and….. I never saw a problem with speed. I was 
very impressed with how much it can do. However, are you using Objective C 
methods for the calculations? The run time dispatch in Objective C could slow 
things considerably. I wrote all my math in C++.

David


On Aug 7, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Trygve Inda <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have an app that is running slow. I have narrowed it down to several
> functions which are trig-intensive (used to calculate the position of the
> moon at a given moment and more specifically to calculate rise/set times).
> 
> To calculate the position and rise/set times for a month on average,
> requires:
> 
> 300 trig functions for position
> 24 points in time to find the correct set of three points
> 30 days
>  2 events
> 
> Total of 432,000 trig functions (mostly sin and cos)
> 
> On my iPad 3, this takes about 3 seconds, and on my desktop (2.3GHz
> Quad-core i7) it is nearly instantaneous.
> 
> I am using doubles (not floats).
> 
> What can I do to speed this up?
> 
> 
> 
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