⚡️ Speed up function leapfrog_integration by 2,611%#1064
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The optimized code achieves a **26x speedup** by replacing nested Python loops with **vectorized NumPy operations**. **Key optimizations:** 1. **Vectorized pairwise distance calculations**: Instead of computing distances between particles using nested `for` loops over `i` and `j`, the optimized version creates difference matrices for all particle pairs simultaneously using NumPy broadcasting (`dx = x[None, :] - x[:, None]`). This creates an (N×N) matrix where element `[i,j]` contains the x-component difference between particles j and i. 2. **Bulk acceleration computation**: Rather than accumulating forces particle-by-particle in Python loops, the optimized code computes all accelerations at once with `np.sum(factor * dx, axis=1)`. This leverages NumPy's highly optimized C implementations for array operations. 3. **Consolidated velocity/position updates**: The three separate loops that updated velocity and position components are replaced with single vectorized operations (`vel += 0.5 * dt * acc`), eliminating loop overhead. **Why this is faster:** - **Python loop elimination**: The original code's innermost loop runs ~260k times per execution (visible in line profiler), with each iteration incurring Python interpreter overhead. Vectorization moves this work into compiled NumPy routines. - **Cache efficiency**: Vectorized operations process contiguous memory blocks, improving CPU cache utilization compared to scattered array indexing in nested loops. - **SIMD utilization**: NumPy can leverage CPU vector instructions (SIMD) to process multiple elements simultaneously, which explicit Python loops cannot. **Performance characteristics from tests:** - **Massive gains for larger systems**: Tests with 50-200 particles show 60-150x speedups (e.g., `test_large_scale_system_50_particles_100_steps`: 235ms → 3ms), as vectorization benefits scale with problem size. - **Slower for tiny systems**: Small cases (2-3 particles, few steps) run 16-70% slower due to NumPy's fixed overhead of allocating temporary (N×N) matrices, which dominates when N is small. - **Break-even around N=10-20**: The optimization starts showing gains when the nested loop cost exceeds vectorization overhead. **Impact consideration:** Since N-body simulations typically involve many particles over many timesteps (the intended use case for leapfrog integration), this optimization would significantly benefit production workloads, despite the slight regression on toy examples.
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📄 2,611% (26.11x) speedup for
leapfrog_integrationincode_to_optimize/sample_jit_code.py⏱️ Runtime :
506 milliseconds→18.7 milliseconds(best of249runs)📝 Explanation and details
The optimized code achieves a 26x speedup by replacing nested Python loops with vectorized NumPy operations.
Key optimizations:
Vectorized pairwise distance calculations: Instead of computing distances between particles using nested
forloops overiandj, the optimized version creates difference matrices for all particle pairs simultaneously using NumPy broadcasting (dx = x[None, :] - x[:, None]). This creates an (N×N) matrix where element[i,j]contains the x-component difference between particles j and i.Bulk acceleration computation: Rather than accumulating forces particle-by-particle in Python loops, the optimized code computes all accelerations at once with
np.sum(factor * dx, axis=1). This leverages NumPy's highly optimized C implementations for array operations.Consolidated velocity/position updates: The three separate loops that updated velocity and position components are replaced with single vectorized operations (
vel += 0.5 * dt * acc), eliminating loop overhead.Why this is faster:
Python loop elimination: The original code's innermost loop runs ~260k times per execution (visible in line profiler), with each iteration incurring Python interpreter overhead. Vectorization moves this work into compiled NumPy routines.
Cache efficiency: Vectorized operations process contiguous memory blocks, improving CPU cache utilization compared to scattered array indexing in nested loops.
SIMD utilization: NumPy can leverage CPU vector instructions (SIMD) to process multiple elements simultaneously, which explicit Python loops cannot.
Performance characteristics from tests:
Massive gains for larger systems: Tests with 50-200 particles show 60-150x speedups (e.g.,
test_large_scale_system_50_particles_100_steps: 235ms → 3ms), as vectorization benefits scale with problem size.Slower for tiny systems: Small cases (2-3 particles, few steps) run 16-70% slower due to NumPy's fixed overhead of allocating temporary (N×N) matrices, which dominates when N is small.
Break-even around N=10-20: The optimization starts showing gains when the nested loop cost exceeds vectorization overhead.
Impact consideration:
Since N-body simulations typically involve many particles over many timesteps (the intended use case for leapfrog integration), this optimization would significantly benefit production workloads, despite the slight regression on toy examples.
✅ Correctness verification report:
⚙️ Click to see Existing Unit Tests
test_numba_jit_code.py::TestLeapfrogIntegration.test_does_not_modify_inputtest_numba_jit_code.py::TestLeapfrogIntegration.test_momentum_conservationtest_numba_jit_code.py::TestLeapfrogIntegration.test_single_moving_particletest_numba_jit_code.py::TestLeapfrogIntegration.test_single_stationary_particletest_numba_jit_code.py::TestLeapfrogIntegration.test_two_particles_approach🌀 Click to see Generated Regression Tests
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