Art,
I do not understand this factor 10. Are you sure than you run
with the same CINT optimisation level in both cases?
Could you send me your file pion-1.612.tuples?
Rene Brun
"Arthur E. Snyder" wrote:
>
> I find speed of C++ interpreter to be much slower in new versions of root
> than in old ones. Using the code attached below to read in an ASCII file I
> find a factor of 2 decrease in the speed of the macro between 3.02-07
> and 2.23-12. Why is that? This not progress!
>
> Even stranger is that the original version of this code which used "cout"
> rather than "printf" to print out variable "count" is even slower. That
> one ran 10x slower in 3.02-07 than 2.23-12 the 1st time it was executed,
> but improved to only 2x slower when executed again. I'm not sure if this
> really had anything to do with use of "cout <<" instead of printf, since
> other minor changes such as putting in a few statements to print cpu time
> used also produced improvement from 10x worse to only 2x worse.
>
> Anybody have any idea what's going on here?
>
> -Art Snyder, SLAC
>
> ASCII tuple reader:
>
> TNtuple* readASCII() {
> ifstream fp("paw/pion-1.612.tuples");
>
> TNtuple* temp=new TNtuple("ntuple","ascii
> data","evtno:npievt:status:idmom:eve:ideve:b:idb:xb:yb:zb:
> xeve:yeve:zeve:pxpimc:pypimc:pzpimc:ptpimc:ppimc:thpimc:
> phipimc:pxpirc:pypirc:pzpirc:ptpirc:ppirc:thpirc:phipirc:
> xpirc:ypirc:zpirc:nsvtpi:ndchpi:lenpi:delth:delthalt:pxalt:
> pyalt:pzalt:thalt:phialt:xalt:yalt:zalt:pxmom:pymom:pzmom:
> ptmom:pmom:thmom:phimom:xmom:ymom:zmom:idpimom:idpigma");
>
> Float_t array[56];
> Int_t loop=1;
> Int_t count=0;
>
> while(loop) {
> for(Int_t i=0; i<56; i++) {
> fp >> array[i];
> }
> temp->Fill(array);
> count++;
> if(count>=16434) break;
> if(count%1000==1) printf("count: %d \n",count);
> }
>
> printf("total: %d \n ",count);
> return temp;
> }
>
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