Most efficient way to loop through an Eigen matrix

Question

I\'m creating some functions to do things like the \"separated sum\" of negative and positive number, kahan, pairwise and other stuff where it doesn\'t matter the order I take t

Answer 1

I did some benchmarks to checkout which way is quicker, I got the following results (in seconds):

12
30
3
6
23
3

The first line is doing iteration as suggested by @jleahy. The second line is doing iteration as I've done in my code in the question (the inverse order of @jleahy). The third line is doing iteration using PlainObjectBase::data()like this for (int i = 0; i < matrixObject.size(); i++). The other 3 lines repeat the same as the above, but with an temporary as suggest by @lucas92

I also did the same tests but using substituting /if else.*/ for /else/ (no special treatment for sparse matrix) and I got the following (in seconds):

10
27
3
6
24
2

Doing the tests again gave me results pretty similar. I used g++ 4.7.3 with -O3. The code:

#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

 template 
    inline T sum_kahan1(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
      for (size_t i = 0, nRows = xs.rows(), nCols = xs.cols(); i < nCols; ++i)
      for (size_t j = 0; j < nRows; ++j)
      {
          if (xs(j,i)>0)
          {
            yP = xs(j,i) - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else if (xs(j,i)<0)
          {
            yN = xs(j,i) - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }

 template 
    inline T sum_kahan2(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
      for (size_t i = 0, nRows = xs.rows(), nCols = xs.cols(); i < nRows; ++i)
      for (size_t j = 0; j < nCols; ++j)
      {
          if (xs(i,j)>0)
          {
            yP = xs(i,j) - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else if (xs(i,j)<0)
          {
            yN = xs(i,j) - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }


 template 
    inline T sum_kahan3(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
    for (size_t i = 0, size = xs.size(); i < size; i++)
      {
          if ((*(xs.data() + i))>0)
          {
            yP = (*(xs.data() + i)) - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else if ((*(xs.data() + i))<0)
          {
            yN = (*(xs.data() + i)) - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }

 template 
    inline T sum_kahan1t(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
      for (size_t i = 0, nRows = xs.rows(), nCols = xs.cols(); i < nCols; ++i)
      for (size_t j = 0; j < nRows; ++j)
      {
      T temporary = xs(j,i);
          if (temporary>0)
          {
            yP = temporary - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else if (temporary<0)
          {
            yN = temporary - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }

 template 
    inline T sum_kahan2t(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
      for (size_t i = 0, nRows = xs.rows(), nCols = xs.cols(); i < nRows; ++i)
      for (size_t j = 0; j < nCols; ++j)
      {
      T temporary = xs(i,j);
          if (temporary>0)
          {
            yP = temporary - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else if (temporary<0)
          {
            yN = temporary - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }


 template 
    inline T sum_kahan3t(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
    for (size_t i = 0, size = xs.size(); i < size; i++)
      {
      T temporary = (*(xs.data() + i));
          if (temporary>0)
          {
            yP = temporary - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else if (temporary<0)
          {
            yN = temporary - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }

 template 
    inline T sum_kahan1e(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
      for (size_t i = 0, nRows = xs.rows(), nCols = xs.cols(); i < nCols; ++i)
      for (size_t j = 0; j < nRows; ++j)
      {
          if (xs(j,i)>0)
          {
            yP = xs(j,i) - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else
          {
            yN = xs(j,i) - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }

 template 
    inline T sum_kahan2e(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
      for (size_t i = 0, nRows = xs.rows(), nCols = xs.cols(); i < nRows; ++i)
      for (size_t j = 0; j < nCols; ++j)
      {
          if (xs(i,j)>0)
          {
            yP = xs(i,j) - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else
          {
            yN = xs(i,j) - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }


 template 
    inline T sum_kahan3e(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
    for (size_t i = 0, size = xs.size(); i < size; i++)
      {
          if ((*(xs.data() + i))>0)
          {
            yP = (*(xs.data() + i)) - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else
          {
            yN = (*(xs.data() + i)) - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }

 template 
    inline T sum_kahan1te(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
      for (size_t i = 0, nRows = xs.rows(), nCols = xs.cols(); i < nCols; ++i)
      for (size_t j = 0; j < nRows; ++j)
      {
      T temporary = xs(j,i);
          if (temporary>0)
          {
            yP = temporary - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else
          {
            yN = temporary - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }

 template 
    inline T sum_kahan2te(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
      for (size_t i = 0, nRows = xs.rows(), nCols = xs.cols(); i < nRows; ++i)
      for (size_t j = 0; j < nCols; ++j)
      {
      T temporary = xs(i,j);
          if (temporary>0)
          {
            yP = temporary - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else
          {
            yN = temporary - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }


 template 
    inline T sum_kahan3te(const Eigen::Matrix& xs) {
      if (xs.size() == 0) return 0;
      T sumP(0);
      T sumN(0);
      T tP(0);
      T tN(0);
      T cP(0);
      T cN(0);
      T yP(0);
      T yN(0);
    for (size_t i = 0, size = xs.size(); i < size; i++)
      {
      T temporary = (*(xs.data() + i));
          if (temporary>0)
          {
            yP = temporary - cP;
          tP = sumP + yP;
          cP = (tP - sumP) - yP;
          sumP = tP;
          }
        else
          {
            yN = temporary - cN;
          tN = sumN + yN;
          cN = (tN - sumN) - yN;
          sumN = tN;
          }
      }
      return sumP+sumN;
    }


int main() {

    Eigen::Matrix test = Eigen::Matrix::Random(10000,10000);

    cout << "start" << endl;   
    int now;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan1(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan2(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan3(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan1t(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan2t(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan3t(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan1e(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan2e(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan3e(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan1te(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan2te(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    now = time(0);
    sum_kahan3te(test);
    cout << time(0) - now << endl;

    return 0;
}