Archive for the ‘Optimisation’ Category
Friday, February 5th, 2010
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Matlab is a language that's used a lot in science and for good reason. It's quick to code in, plus there are loads of built-in functions and packages available for many of the tasks that Programmer-Scientists might find themselves involved in. ...
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
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For decades computers have got faster by increasing the power of a single processing unit but recently chip makers are hitting limits, mainly cost and heat. The results: instead of one processor getting faster, more are being added. At the same time the advent of ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
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The internet is full of smart people writing intelligently on how to write good software. Very few of these articles are from the perspective of a scientist (hence this blog!) but a lot of what they write is useful, interesting and, occasionally, entertaining. This ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
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We've covered the theory of optimisation and how to write a profiler in previous articles. This article is about specific optimisations that you can use to make your code go faster or use less resources.
Related posts:How to…optimise MatlabWriting code for a big scientific collaborationScripting for science ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
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Before doing any kind of optimisation it is important to find out where your program is spending its time. A lot of people have wasted a lot of time and written lots of unnecessary code because they thought they knew where to optimise. If ...
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