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Thomas Neidhart commented on MATH-1154:
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I like the solution myself, thats why I am doing what I have outlined before:
* use a null rng in places where I know that no sampling will be used (and
which is hidden to users anyway), namley in the inference tests
* re-open MATH-1124 to discuss the addition of lazy rng initialization in the
distribution classes so that other users can also benefit from it (and may not
be as advanced to know details about the use of a rng and when one can provide
a null instance)
> Statistical tests in stat.inference package are very slow due to implicit
> RandomGenerator initialization
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> Key: MATH-1154
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-1154
> Project: Commons Math
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.3
> Reporter: Otmar Ertl
> Attachments: MATH-1154.patch, math3.patch
>
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> Some statistical tests defined in the stat.inference package (e.g.
> BinomialTest or ChiSquareTest) are unnecessarily very slow (up to a factor 20
> slower than necessary). The reason is the implicit slow initialization of a
> default (Well19937c) random generator instance each time a test is performed.
> The affected tests create some distribution instance in order to use some
> methods defined therein. However, they do not use any method for random
> generation. Nevertheless a random number generator instance is automatically
> created when creating a distribution instance, which is the reason for the
> serious slowdown. The problem is related to MATH-1124.
> There are following solutions:
> 1) Fix the affected statistical tests by passing a light-weight
> RandomGenerator implementation (or even null) to the constructor of the
> distribution.
> 2) Or use for all distributions a RandomGenerator implementation that uses
> lazy initialization to generate the Well19937c instance as late as possible.
> This would also solve MATH-1124.
> I will attach a patch proposal together with a performance test, that will
> demonstrate the speed up after a fix.
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