<div dir="ltr">Well, vtkImageReslice is probably not the best "speed" example any more, it has become fat with all the features that I've added to it over the years :) And in the old days, a big reason for its speed was that it did some bit-twiddling to work around the disastrously slow floor() operations on old CPUs.<div><br></div><div>However, it is certainly true with modern computer architectures, with their multiple cores and fast caches, doing _any_ application-level or system-level operations within the algorithmic code causes a significant performance hit, because that takes the CPU core out of the "zone" where it can work at its full potential.</div><div><br></div><div> - David</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Berk Geveci <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:berk.geveci@kitware.com" target="_blank">berk.geveci@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'd be fine with it if the header is put into a higher level module such as GUISupport and has some examples demonstrating its purpose and some documentation providing a guide on how to use it. I would not agree to putting this at a place where it may encourage folks to use it in algorithms and other core functionality. As I mentioned previously, I already have the unpleasant job of ripping out a number of "convenience" functionality that are going to have significant impact on performance as we continue to multi-thread more algorithms. All of these features look harmless when initially added. Then they find their way into core functionality slowly but surely. When you are considering 200-way parallelism (which we are, since we are porting to Intel Xeon Phi already), any little bit makes a difference. Some simple examples:<div><br></div><div>* Garbage collection</div><div>* vtkDataArrayTemplate::DataChanged()</div><div>* Abundant use of Modified()</div><div>* Progress reporting</div><div><div><br></div><div>Very nice and convenient feature. They may lead to a code running more slowly as more threads are added rather than scale up.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't agree that misuse of such features would get caught in reviews. Very few reviewers are conscious of potential performance issues. Because very few developers are performance conscious at this point (Dave Gobbi excepted, he writes amazingly fast code, see image reslice).</div></div><div><br></div><div>So this is not the time to pepper core classes with convenience functionality. It is time to simplify and come with very clear guidelines on what core classes and algorithms can and cannot do. Once the development community becomes more aware of these issues and our dashboards are able to catch performance regressions, we can relax some.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>-berk</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:52 AM, David Gobbi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.gobbi@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.gobbi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>However, I have reservations about putting this macro in vtkSetGet.h. If it goes in its own header, then the chances of it being confused with vtkDebugMacro are significantly reduced.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div> - David</div></font></span><div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Andras Lasso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lasso@queensu.ca" target="_blank">lasso@queensu.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Adding the macro has negligible impact on VTK but would help application developers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Cc:</b> Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin; Berk Geveci; Andras Lasso<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [vtk-developers] Proposal to add "vtkInfoMacro"<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div>
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