Why are the BLAS functions in R2011b much faster than R2008a?

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Derek O'Connor
Derek O'Connor am 10 Feb. 2012
Bearbeitet: NGUYEN am 8 Okt. 2013
Here are the results of a simple Matrix Benchmark test with n = 10^3; A = rand(n,n)
Dell Precision 690, 2x4-Core Xeon 3545 CPU @ 2.3GHz, 16GB ram
Windows 7 64-bit
Matlab Version : 7.6 (R2008a 64-bit)
A*A chol(A) lu(A) qr(A) svd(A) eig(A) Total
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Times(secs) 0.249 0.059 0.117 0.237 1.672 2.663 4.997
Norm. Times 1.000 0.237 0.469 0.954 6.715 10.698 20.073
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Times(secs) averaged over 20 runs
I got friend who has R2011b to run the same test on his machine which has similar specs and he got this:
Matlab Version : 7.13 (R2011b 64-bit)
A*A chol(A) lu(A) qr(A) svd(A) eig(A) Total
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Times(secs) 0.055 0.016 0.073 0.049 0.337 2.005 2.535
Norm. Times 1.000 0.301 1.346 0.901 6.168 36.740 46.456
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Times(secs) averaged over 20 runs
As you can see, matrix multiplication is nearly 5 times faster, while the total is twice as fast. Also note how the normalized times have changed.

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Matt Tearle
Matt Tearle am 10 Feb. 2012
The developers continually work on squeezing a bit more efficiency out of the core math operations, so I'd expect to see an improvement over time. The details of the underlying implementations are proprietary information, but for 8a -> 11b in particular, I'd guess that improvements in multithreading would be a contributing factor.
Take a look at the release notes in the documentation. You'll see performance enhancements in the MATLAB math section. They don't often go into detail (again, that's MathWorks IP), but you'll see certain functions or function groups listed. In particular, I note that 11a says:
Performance Enhancement
  • Matrix transpose
  • Element-wise single precision functions
  • Sparse matrix indexed assignment
  • Many linear algebra functions
  • Convolution for long vectors and large matrices with conv and conv2
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Derek O'Connor
Derek O'Connor am 10 Feb. 2012
Thanks, Matt. As usual, Mathworks is very coy. Strange, you'd think they would be blowing their trumpet about such an improvement in speed.
The only good information I've ever got on the innards of Matlab is the Jan 1992 SIAM paper by Gilbert, Moler, and Schreiber: Sparse Matrices in Matlab: Design and Implementation.

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