Will `ArrayView` overcome the unnecessary copying?


On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 11:54:39 AM UTC+2, Tony Kelman wrote:
>
> Currently Julia only drops trailing singleton dimensions in indexing. So 
> if F is n-by-m-by-k, then F[:, i, :] is n-by-1-by-k. You need to use 
> reshape or squeeze to convert that to an n-by-k 2-dimensional matrix.
>
> Note that writing code in this direct-port slicing style is going to 
> involve a lot of unnecessary copying and not perform very well, especially 
> not if the arrays are large. Just something to be aware of. 
> http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/12/22/the-relationship-between-vectorized-and-devectorized-code/
>  
> is relevant here.
>
>
> On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 7:27:49 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> R code below changed to Julia code. It is always error. I do not know how 
>> to change R code below to Julia code correctly? Thank you.
>> #R code
>> forward <- function(G.I,Tr,Pr)
>> {
>>     n.samp <- dim(G.I)[1]
>>     n.mark <- dim(G.I)[2]
>>     F <- G.I
>>     F[,1,] <- sweep(G.I[,1,],2,Pr,"*")
>>     for (i in 2:n.mark)
>>     {
>>          F[,i,] <- G.I[,i,]*(F[,i-1,]%*%Tr)
>>          S <- F[,i,1] + F[,i,2] + F[,i,3]
>>          F[,i,] <- sweep(F[,i,],1,S,"/")
>>     }
>>     return(F)
>> }
>> #error julia code
>> function forward(GI::Array,Tr::Array,Pr::Array)
>>         nsamp = size(GI,1)
>> nmark = size(GI,2)
>> F = GI
>> F[:,1,:] = broadcast(*,Pr,GI[:,1,:])  #error
>> for i=2:nmark
>>       F[:,i,:] = GI[:,i,:].*(F[:,i-1,:]*Tr)  #error
>>       S = F[:,i,1] + F[:,i,2] + F[:,i,3]  #error
>>       F[:,i,:] = broadcast(/,S',F[:,i,:])  #error
>> end
>> return F
>> end
>>
>

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