[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp Timer

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 December 2016 at 14:55, Kaspar Märtens wrote:
| Hi, 
| 
| Trying out the Rcpp Timer example from http://gallery.rcpp.org/articles/
| using-the-rcpp-timer/ I was unable to reproduce similar results. The example
| output
| 
|     get/put g/p+rnorm()  empty loop 
|   1.967e+03   3.288e+03   6.400e-04 
| 
| compared to the output I see
| 
|     get/put g/p+rnorm()  empty loop
|    733.5265   1884.9589   1884.9601
| 
| Suspiciously, the empty loop appears to take the longest. Could these be
| cumulatively measured times here? 

It is possibly that there is a thinko / bug / error somewhere.  I just re-ran
it via sourceCpp() [ see below ] which is pretty much what Ruby + Jekyll do
to build the Rcpp Gallery pages.

The results will reflect the underlying machines a little but the difference
you show is much starker.  What is your OS / compiler?   Ubuntu 16.04 with
g++-5.3 here; page was original written with an older g++.

Dirk


Copy and paste below (and I just removed two lines pertaining to ESS which do
no matter here).

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R> library(Rcpp)
R> sourceCpp("~/git/rcpp-gallery/src/2013-01-06-using-the-rcpp-timer.cpp")

R> useTimer()
    get/put g/p+rnorm()  empty loop 
    1620.67     3973.43     3973.44 
R> 


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