[music-dsp] C# Interpolation Code

[Christopher Weare]

I do a lot of numerical work in C# at work and have not seen a factor of
10 deficit in performance.  I deal mostly with large scale analysis of
text documents and have implemented several Machine Learning techniques
in C# and C++ (and TSQL too but please don't tell anyone.)

C++ is definitely faster but often only by 15% to 20% for large and
complex applications.  There are times when the difference is more
extreme but this tends to be the exception, not the rule.  

I can imagine that it would take some work to get a large FFT to run
efficiently in C# but I have never attempted it so I am only boldly
speculating.  However, for functions like FFT or convolution with large
kernels it is a straight forward process to link to unmanaged code when
you need the performance.  

If you are required to dev in C# then I suggest you code as much of the
app as you can in C# and link to unmanaged code only in the few places
it makes sense.

-chris


-----Original Message-----
From: music-dsp-bounces at shoko.calarts.edu
[mailto:music-dsp-bounces at shoko.calarts.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Waters
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:08 PM
To: a list for musical digital signal processing
Subject: RE: [music-dsp] C# Interpolation Code

Thank you for your replies!

The company I work for uses .NET as their main development platform. 
Angelo, why exactly is C# slower? Would you recommend C++ instead?  What
about VC++?

Roger.


On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:07:00 +0100, "Angelo Farina"
<farina at pcfarina.eng.unipr.it> said:
> I don't think that C# is a good programming language for DSP... We
tested
> it
> some months ago, and in the benchmark it was approximately slower by a
> factor ten than the good, old, "unmanaged" C. We tested with FFT
> algorithms
> and linear convolutions, but I suppose that the same hold
approximately
> for
> any algorithm.
> Why hell are You planning to use C# for DSP ???
> Bye!
> 
> Angelo Farina
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: music-dsp-bounces at shoko.calarts.edu 
> > [mailto:music-dsp-bounces at shoko.calarts.edu] On Behalf Of Roger
Waters
> > Sent: 27 January 2004 01:52
> > To: music-dsp at shoko.calarts.edu
> > Subject: [music-dsp] C# Interpolation Code
> > 
> > I'm new to C# and am looking for a linear or spline 
> > interpolation code in C#.  Does anybody know of a site where 
> > I can view similar code, or would anybody be willing to share 
> > some code for me to study?
> > 
> > Thank you :)
> > 
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