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Gilles commented on RNG-50:
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bq. I don't see why you have to precompute everything.
Misunderstanding: maybe, sometimes, it is useful to precompute part of the
cache (between some min and max); but then maybe it's never useful. I do *not*
suggest to *precompute* *everything* but to *cache* *everything*: e.g. if one
creates a cache for values between 0 and 255, then if some caller requests 345
later, then keep that too in the cache, and so on, so that within a single
application, it would be possible to compute any "state" only once.
But maybe it's too much optimization for what it's worth.
It stemmed from seeing this excerpt
{code}
if (lambda < minN || lambda > maxN)
return computeState(lambda);
{code}
that looks like it will silently recompute everything all the time if the user
happened to have mistyped its cache interval.
> PoissonSampler single use speed improvements
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Key: RNG-50
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RNG-50
> Project: Commons RNG
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.0
> Reporter: Alex D Herbert
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: PoissonSamplerTest.java, jmh-result.csv
>
>
> The Sampler architecture of {{org.apache.commons.rng.sampling.distribution}}
> is nicely written for fast sampling of small dataset sizes. The constructors
> for the samplers do not check the input parameters are valid for the
> respective distributions (in contrast to the old
> {{org.apache.commons.math3.random.distribution}} classes). I assume this is a
> design choice for speed. Thus most of the samplers can be used within a loop
> to sample just one value with very little overhead.
> The {{PoissonSampler}} precomputes log factorial numbers upon construction if
> the mean is above 40. This is done using the {{InternalUtils.FactorialLog}}
> class. As of version 1.0 this internal class is currently only used in the
> {{PoissonSampler}}.
> The cache size is limited to 2*PIVOT (where PIVOT=40). But it creates and
> precomputes the cache every time a PoissonSampler is constructed if the mean
> is above the PIVOT value.
> Why not create this once in a static block for the PoissonSampler?
> {code:java}
> /** {@code log(n!)}. */
> private static final FactorialLog factorialLog;
>
> static
> {
> factorialLog = FactorialLog.create().withCache((int) (2 *
> PoissonSampler.PIVOT));
> }
> {code}
> This will make the construction cost of a new {{PoissonSampler}} negligible.
> If the table is computed dynamically as a static construction method then the
> overhead will be in the first use. Thus the following call will be much
> faster:
> {code:java}
> UniformRandomProvider rng = ...;
> int value = new PoissonSampler(rng, 50).sample();
> {code}
> I have tested this modification (see attached file) and the results are:
> {noformat}
> Mean 40 Single construction ( 7330792) vs Loop construction
> (24334724) (3.319522.2x faster)
> Mean 40 Single construction ( 7330792) vs Loop construction with static
> FactorialLog ( 7990656) (1.090013.2x faster)
> Mean 50 Single construction ( 6390303) vs Loop construction
> (19389026) (3.034132.2x faster)
> Mean 50 Single construction ( 6390303) vs Loop construction with static
> FactorialLog ( 6146556) (0.961857.2x faster)
> Mean 60 Single construction ( 6041165) vs Loop construction
> (21337678) (3.532047.2x faster)
> Mean 60 Single construction ( 6041165) vs Loop construction with static
> FactorialLog ( 5329129) (0.882136.2x faster)
> Mean 70 Single construction ( 6064003) vs Loop construction
> (23963516) (3.951765.2x faster)
> Mean 70 Single construction ( 6064003) vs Loop construction with static
> FactorialLog ( 5306081) (0.875013.2x faster)
> Mean 80 Single construction ( 6064772) vs Loop construction
> (26381365) (4.349935.2x faster)
> Mean 80 Single construction ( 6064772) vs Loop construction with static
> FactorialLog ( 6341274) (1.045591.2x faster)
> {noformat}
> Thus the speed improvements would be approximately 3-4 fold for single use
> Poisson sampling.
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