Linked Questions
18 questions linked to/from Profiling from Mathematica
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Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?
I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I'm always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there's something nifty that I haven't ...
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Performance tuning in Mathematica?
What performance tuning tricks do you use to make a Mathematica application faster? MATLAB has an amazing profiler, but from what I can tell, Mathematica has no similar functionality.
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Measuring execution time of code
How one can measure the execution time (time that is spent for code to finish) of a program in Mathematica?
I understand that there are general timing functions (Timing, AbsoluteTiming, TimeUsed, etc....
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Improving Performance of an XY Monte Carlo
I normally write my Monte Carlo codes in Fortran for speed, but I was doing some quick and dirty work and wrote one in Mathematica for the XY model on a square lattice (see Kosterlitz-Thouless ...
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The speed of Sum[] varies strangely
I was curious about the difference in speed between Total and Sum. I found out Total was ...
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Workflow in the Mathematica and Workbench IDE
After visiting one of the Wolfram presentations, I started writing code for my number theory research project in Mathematica because I found it to be faster than Sage. I downloaded Workbench and ...
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Workbench Profile[] question
I previously posted this question on Mathgroup but received no response
I am using Workbench to profile my code.
Suppose I have 2 modules, let's call them A, B (they are too long to replicate here). ...
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How can I efficiently write formatted data to a Gaussian Cube file?
I am working with data files that contain information about electronic wave functions. The data format is specified by the quantum chemistry program Gaussian. I need to import the data, manipulate ...
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Question about how to speed up Mathematica code
When looking at the Minimal Goldbach prime partition point {p,q} for each n; where n=10^i and i = 2,3,4,...,10; I notice that these points reside in an interval with center n/2 and radius 250:
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Timing mathematica code
I have a collection of functions (Modules) and I wish to find out which sub-routines inside the code take up most time. I have done this by wrapping individual code blocks with
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Profiling in Mathematica
This is meant as a broad question, because I couldn't find such a discussion on this topic (the questions I found are very old and basic, e.g. the most popular one only shows where to find Mathematica'...
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Optimizing a function containing a complex exponential
I've noticed the following significant different in performance for different formulations of the same function:
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How to make reading from long lists faster?
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I am using Mathematica to solve a traveling-salesman-like problem. I implemented two different algorithms that are able to solve this type of problem and both algorithms yield the same ...
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Precise Timing for nested functions, how to? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Profiling from Mathematica
How can I easily get fractions of timing for each nested function?
Consider a nested call like this:
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How do I profile my own code in Mathematica? [duplicate]
Coming from the question Profiling from Mathematica and reading the example, I manage to reproduce it but I have no idea how to adjust it to profile my own code.
Given an example file:
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