On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
Some evidence remains that smaller chunks are better, but nothing
like as
striking as before.
Confirmed here:
home laptop
matrix size = 2500000, (20000000 bytes)
1 columns per chunk: 4.1005s
2 columns per chunk: 3.9173s
5 columns per chunk: 4.3702s
10 columns per chunk: 4.3034s
25 columns per chunk: 3.7437s
50 columns per chunk: 3.7776s
100 columns per chunk: 5.0219s
125 columns per chunk: 5.2963s
500 columns per chunk: 4.2739s
work desktop
matrix size = 2500000, (20000000 bytes)
1 columns per chunk: 2.4840s
2 columns per chunk: 1.9271s
5 columns per chunk: 1.8937s
10 columns per chunk: 2.0993s
25 columns per chunk: 1.9555s
50 columns per chunk: 1.9354s
100 columns per chunk: 1.9425s
125 columns per chunk: 2.1190s
500 columns per chunk: 2.9539s
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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