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Calculate Mean Value of Array (lvanlys vs native)


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I'm just going to throw this out there...

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LabVIEW's included mean value of array function calls and external dll (lvanlys). It takes close to twice as long (depending on array size) to execute than just doing a native sum of array elements then divide by array size.

Is there any advantage that the lvanlys function has over this simple native mean?

Why aren't most of the lvanlys functions implemented as native LV code instead of a dll? I'd imagine that we could get some performance boost on some of them by using inlining, VIMs, and parallelized loops.

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9 hours ago, Antoine Chalons said:

The lvanlys will return an error code if there is a NaN in the array

I couldn't get it to return a non-zero error code. I tried Inf and NaN in the array.

8 hours ago, Lipko said:

Maybe lvanlys uses the cumulative average method

Dividing once for each element feels expensive. It doesn't seem like lvanlys uses it either. Both the native "dumb" mean algorithm and lvanlys overflow around the same value. Whereas a divide at each element algorithm can handle higher values.Capture3.PNG.988852f2b44009128bb6d747e4f9da51.PNG

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It looks like the external dll call has an extra buffer allocation, don't know if it is real or not, just what NI is reporting, whereas, the native implementation does not. See below. That may account for the speed difference.

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EDIT: Execution Trace toolkit shows the same.

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