I’m using LoopVectorization to speed up some function to great effect. However, I’m finding the syntax it allows to be quite limiting. I’m loping over a sparse matrix like this to gather an energy function. It works great and is fast, but the syntax is very ugly. Moreover, I would like to hold the s…

If you want to have super fast code you will always have to sacrifice some beauty and readability… In general, what you have to sacrifice is quite small when using Julia, compared to other languages.

This specific problem is because of how LoopVectorization.jl is implemented. Maybe the replacement will be ready in a year, which won’t have these limitations.

I agree that in general, performant code will be less readable. In this case however, since I just want to inline the functions anyway, I’m basically just creating an alias which normally is completely compiled away. Couldn’t the macro carry out the inlining somehow?

[image] f.ij: efac += -gstate[cidx]*weight Nothing to do with Loopvectorization, but did you know that you can write x -= a instead of x += -a? There’s also /= and *=, etc.

I’m aware! The full expression in my code comes from an energy function, where this term has a minus sign, so IMO it’s a bit more readable like this and, moreover, it’s not always the only term that is added (and the others might not have minus signs)

[image] f.ij: Couldn’t the macro carry out the inlining somehow? Macros don’t work on that level. Otherwise they wouldn’t be called macros, I think. EDIT: I see this was already explained in a new thread.

Loop Vectorization syntax very limiting

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f.ij October 25, 2023, 6:09pm 5

I’ve seen you are working on LoopModels, it looks awesome, and thanks for all the effort.

Macro that inlines functions

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