No need to precompile. svds was recently added to base - but it won't exist 
in 0.3.

-viral

On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 12:32:09 PM UTC+5:30, Todd Leo wrote:
>
> Isn't svd/svds already included in base? Do I need to precompile them?
>
> On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 3:48:50 AM UTC+8, Tim Holy wrote:
>>
>> Since it allocates 120MB on the first call and only 9kB on the second, 
>> all that 
>> memory is just due to compilation. 
>>
>> The only way I know to fix that is to precompile some of the functions 
>> when you 
>> build julia. If this is a big deal to you, consider adding your own 
>> custom 
>> userimg.jl (and see base/precompile.jl for a model). 
>>
>>
>> http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/modules/?highlight=userimg#module-initialization-and-precompilation
>>  
>>
>> --Tim 
>>
>> On Friday, February 06, 2015 11:23:52 AM Viral Shah wrote: 
>> > This is because the internal operations with svds are allocating new 
>> > vectors every iteration. This PR should address it, but needs to be 
>> > completed, 
>> > 
>> > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/7907 
>> > 
>> > Also, array indexing giving views by default will also help here. 
>> > 
>> > -viral 
>> > 
>> > On Friday, February 6, 2015 at 7:50:24 PM UTC+5:30, Todd Leo wrote: 
>> > > Hi Julians, 
>> > > 
>> > > I am trying to apply svd on a very large sparse matrix using svds. 
>> When 
>> > > warming up svds function, I used a very small random vector, and the 
>> > > number 
>> > > of singular values (nsv) is set to one. However, this simple set up 
>> > > results 
>> > > in a considerable high cost of time, and as much as 120MB memory is 
>> > > occupied. To me, it doesn't make sense, and one can reproduce it by: 
>> > > 
>> > > julia> @time svds(sprand(3,3,0.1), nsv = 1) 
>> > > 
>> > >> elapsed time: 2.640233094 seconds (117 MB allocated, 1.06% gc time 
>> in 5 
>> > >> 
>> > >>> pauses with 0 full sweep) 
>> > > 
>> > > Regards, 
>> > > Todd 
>>
>>

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