One minor additional suggestion: if you use #:authentic for the struct, it
will generate slightly better code for the accessors.

Sam

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 6:18 AM Bogdan Popa <[email protected]> wrote:

> I updated the gist with some cleanups and additional improvements that
> get the runtime down to a little over 1s (vs ~350ms for the optimized C
> and Rust code) on my maxed-out 2019 MBP and ~600ms on my M1 Mac Mini.
>
> Pawel Mosakowski writes:
>
> > Hi Bogdan,
> >
> > This is a brilliant solution and also completely over my head. It
> finishes
> > in ~3.75s on my PC and is faster than the Python version which basically
> > delegates all the work to C. I will need to spend some time on
> > understanding it but I am looking forward to learning something new.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Pawel
> >
> > On Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 7:22:10 PM UTC bogdan wrote:
> >
> >> I managed to get it about as fast as Python by making it really
> >> imperative and rolling my own hash:
> >>
> >> https://gist.github.com/Bogdanp/fb39d202037cdaadd55dae3d45737571
> >>
> >> Sam Tobin-Hochstadt writes:
> >>
> >> > Here are several variants of the code:
> >> > https://gist.github.com/d6fbe3757c462d5b4d1d9393b72f9ab9
> >> >
> >> > The enabled version is about the fastest I can get without using
> >> > `unsafe` (which the rules said not to do). It's possible to optimize a
> >> > tiny bit more by avoiding sorting, but only a few milliseconds -- it
> >> > would be more significant if there were more different words.
> >> >
> >> > Switching to bytes works correctly for the given task, but wouldn't
> >> > always work in the case of general UTF8 input. But those versions
> >> > appeared not be faster for me. Also, writing my own string-downcase
> >> > didn't help. And using a big buffer and doing my own newline splitting
> >> > didn't help either.
> >> >
> >> > The version using just a regexp matching on a port (suggested by
> >> > Robby) turned out not to be faster either, so my suspicion is that the
> >> > original slowness is just using regexps for splitting words.
> >> >
> >> > Sam
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 11:28 AM Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
> >> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Here's a somewhat-optimized version of the code:
> >> >>
> >> >> #lang racket/base
> >> >> (require racket/string racket/vector racket/port)
> >> >>
> >> >> (define h (make-hash))
> >> >>
> >> >> (time
> >> >> (for* ([l (in-lines)]
> >> >> [w (in-list (string-split l))]
> >> >> [w* (in-value (string-downcase w))])
> >> >> (hash-update! h w* add1 0)))
> >> >>
> >> >> (define v
> >> >> (time
> >> >> (for/vector #:length (hash-count h)
> >> >> ([(k v) (in-hash h)])
> >> >> (cons k v))))
> >> >> (time (vector-sort! v > #:key cdr))
> >> >> (define p (current-output-port) #;(open-output-nowhere))
> >> >> (time
> >> >> (for ([pair (in-vector v)])
> >> >> (write-string (car pair) p)
> >> >> (write-string (number->string (cdr pair)) p)
> >> >> (newline p)))
> >> >>
> >> >> It's much more imperative, but also pretty nice and compact. The
> >> >> `printf` optimization is significant for that portion of the program,
> >> >> but that isn't much of the running time. The overall running time for
> >> >> 10 copies of the KJV is about 9 seconds on my laptop.
> >> >>
> >> >> I think the remaining difference between Racket and other languages
> is
> >> >> likely the `string-split` and `string-downcase` functions, plus the
> >> >> relatively-inefficient string representation that Racket uses.
> >> >>
> >> >> Sam
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:28 AM Pawel Mosakowski <
> [email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Hi David,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Yes, the 21 seconds includes the interpreter startup time. I have
> >> done a simple test to see how long it takes:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > $ time racket -e '(displayln "Hello, world")'
> >> >> > Hello, world
> >> >> >
> >> >> > real 0m0.479s
> >> >> > user 0m0.449s
> >> >> > sys 0m0.030s
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I have also put my code inside a main function and profiled it:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Profiling results
> >> >> > -----------------
> >> >> > Total cpu time observed: 20910ms (out of 20970ms)
> >> >> > Number of samples taken: 382 (once every 55ms)
> >> >> > (Hiding functions with self<1.0% and local<2.0%: 1 of 12 hidden)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > ==============================================================
> >> >> > Caller
> >> >> > Idx Total Self Name+src Local%
> >> >> > ms(pct) ms(pct) Callee
> >> >> > ==============================================================
> >> >> > [1] 20910(100.0%) 0(0.0%) [running body]
> >> ...word-occurences-profile.rkt":##f
> >> >> > profile-thunk [2] 100.0%
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> > [running body] [1] 100.0%
> >> >> > [2] 20910(100.0%) 0(0.0%) profile-thunk
> >> ...ket/pkgs/profile-lib/main.rkt:9:0
> >> >> > run [3] 100.0%
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> > profile-thunk [2] 100.0%
> >> >> > [3] 20910(100.0%) 0(0.0%) run
> >> ...share/racket/pkgs/profile-lib/main.rkt:39:2
> >> >> > main [4] 100.0%
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> > run [3] 100.0%
> >> >> > [4] 20910(100.0%) 50(0.2%) main
> >> ...cket/count-word-occurences-profile.rkt:5:0
> >> >> > read-from-stdin-it [5] 98.5%
> >> >> > ??? [6] 0.2%
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> > main [4] 100.0%
> >> >> > [5] 20606(98.5%) 11796(56.4%) read-from-stdin-it
> >> ...-occurences-profile.rkt:19:6
> >> >> > internal-split [7] 42.8%
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> > main [4] 100.0%
> >> >> > [6] 51(0.2%) 0(0.0%) ???
> >> ...cket/collects/racket/private/sort.rkt:369:3
> >> >> > generic-sort/key [8] 100.0%
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> > read-from-stdin-it [5]100.0%
> >> >> > [7] 8810(42.1%) 3528(16.9%) internal-split
> >> ...collects/racket/string.rkt:117:0
> >> >> > regexp-split [9] 59.9%
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> > ??? [6] 100.0%
> >> >> > [8] 51(0.2%) 0(0.0%) generic-sort/key
> >> .../racket/private/sort.rkt:156:2
> >> >> > copying-mergesort [10]100.0%
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> > internal-split [7] 100.0%
> >> >> > [9] 5282(25.3%) 2810(13.4%) regexp-split
> >> ...ts/racket/private/string.rkt:338:2
> >> >> > loop [11] 46.8%
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> > generic-sort/key [8] 10.0%
> >> >> > copying-mergesort [10] 90.0%
> >> >> > [10] 51(0.2%) 51(0.2%) copying-mergesort
> >> ...racket/private/sort.rkt:129:8
> >> >> > copying-mergesort [10] 90.0%
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> > regexp-split [9] 100.0%
> >> >> > [11] 2471(11.8%) 2471(11.8%) loop
> >> ...t/collects/racket/private/string.rkt:169:7
> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Kind regards,
> >> >> > Pawel
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 2:09:35 PM UTC [email protected]
> >> wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Hi Pawel,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I'll take a look at the code later, but did that 21 seconds
> include
> >> startup time for the interpreter?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 9:24 AM Pawel Mosakowski <
> [email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> Hello,
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> I am a Racket beginner and I have come across this article:
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> This is my attempt at solving the challenge:
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> https://pastebin.com/kL16w5Hc
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> However when I have benchmarked it, it takes ~21 seconds to run
> >> compared to the Python and Ruby versions which take around 3-4 seconds.
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> I understand that both Ruby and Python probably have the string
> >> operations and hash tables implemented in optimized C but is there
> anything
> >> I can do to improve performance of my program?
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> Many thanks for all help and suggestions.
> >> >> >>>
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