Yeah we changed the example, so best to take it from the one in the release 
version...

I removed the dictionary from search() but its now no longer solving all 
the problems(!) - does the algorithm rely somehow on the way the dictionary 
is constructed?


On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 6:59:02 PM UTC-4, andy hayden wrote:
>
> I was using Cbc.
>
> SolveModel is a copy and paste job from JuMP (from the last release rather 
> than master) so may not work with JuMP from master - I couldn't get the 
> version from master working since it was incompatible with the JuMP release 
> I had! It'd be great to just be able to just include the file, but I 
> couldn't get that working so I just pasted it in (I should probably clean 
> Bench as I made quite a mess, apologies about that.)... so it may be you 
> need to update SolveModel from JuMP master/your version of JuMP to get 
> Bench working.
>
> It's amazing how some small tweaks like this go so far, there's a few 
> other bits that are obvious even to me (but I just couldn't get working).
>
>
> On 1 July 2014 15:47, Iain Dunning <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> JuMP won't be getting any faster, its entirely limited by the speed of 
>> the MIP solver. Which one did you use?
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 6:47:04 PM UTC-4, Iain Dunning wrote:
>>>
>>> I was unable to run Bench.jl (ERROR: varzm! not defined), but, on my 
>>> computer just using runtests.jl, a fixed seed, and total time for 100 random
>>>
>>> *Initial
>>> elapsed time: 1.641434988 seconds (282491732 bytes allocated, 5.99% gc 
>>> time)
>>>
>>> *Change globals to const
>>> elapsed time: 1.563094028 seconds (261818132 bytes allocated, 6.61% gc 
>>> time)
>>>
>>> * Changing from using a Dict{Int64, *} for the Grid types to just a 
>>> Vector{*}, as well as those other globals
>>> elapsed time: 1.373703078 seconds (191864592 bytes allocated, 4.91% gc 
>>> time)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 6:27:15 PM UTC-4, andy hayden wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bench.jl has a bench_compare method which returns a DataFrame of times 
>>>> (I then divide the median of Python vs Julia columns), I'll add this 
>>>> output 
>>>> to the Bench script as it's useful to see (would be nice to add more 
>>>> stats, 
>>>> as it's just a DataFrame of all the solved puzzles in seconds). By default 
>>>> it runs a hundred random sudoku's on Julia, Python, and JuMP (the same on 
>>>> each)...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Steven: Making those const makes a huge difference, Julia wins 
>>>> (from 20% slower to 10% faster for me with just that change).
>>>> I will have a play and see how your other suggestions play out.
>>>>
>>>> I was also very impressed with JuMP here... and it may be the latest is 
>>>> even faster (I'm using the version from the last release rather than 
>>>> master, and it has changed since then).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:11:27 UTC-7, Iain Dunning wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working on improving this, but I'm not sure how you are measuring 
>>>>> that 20% slower - can you be more specific?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 1:37:00 PM UTC-4, andy hayden wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recently ported Norvig's Solve Every Sudoku Puzzle 
>>>>>> <http://norvig.com/sudoku.html> to Julia: https://github.com/
>>>>>> hayd/Sudoku.jl
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some simple benchmarks suggest my Julia implementation solves around 
>>>>>> 20% slower* than the Python version, and 3 times faster than the 
>>>>>> implementation on JuMP (vendorized from the latest release), against the 
>>>>>> random puzzles. I tried to include the solver from 
>>>>>> attractivechaos/plb 
>>>>>> <https://github.com/attractivechaos/plb/tree/master/sudoku> but 
>>>>>> couldn't get it working for comparison...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm new to Julia so would love to hear people's thoughts / any 
>>>>>> performance tips!
>>>>>> I've not delved too deeply into the Profile, but @time suggests 10% 
>>>>>> of time is GC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> **I'm sure I've lost some performance in translation which could be 
>>>>>> easily sped up...*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Andy
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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