我把Project Euler中的第12题作为一个编程练习,并比较了我在C、Python、Erlang和Haskell中的实现(当然不是最优的)。为了获得更高的执行时间,我搜索第一个因数超过1000的三角形数,而不是原始问题中所述的500。

结果如下:

C:

lorenzo@enzo:~/erlang$ gcc -lm -o euler12.bin euler12.c
lorenzo@enzo:~/erlang$ time ./euler12.bin
842161320

real    0m11.074s
user    0m11.070s
sys 0m0.000s

Python:

lorenzo@enzo:~/erlang$ time ./euler12.py 
842161320

real    1m16.632s
user    1m16.370s
sys 0m0.250s

Python与PyPy:

lorenzo@enzo:~/Downloads/pypy-c-jit-43780-b590cf6de419-linux64/bin$ time ./pypy /home/lorenzo/erlang/euler12.py 
842161320

real    0m13.082s
user    0m13.050s
sys 0m0.020s

Erlang:

lorenzo@enzo:~/erlang$ erlc euler12.erl 
lorenzo@enzo:~/erlang$ time erl -s euler12 solve
Erlang R13B03 (erts-5.7.4) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [rq:4] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V5.7.4  (abort with ^G)
1> 842161320

real    0m48.259s
user    0m48.070s
sys 0m0.020s

Haskell:

lorenzo@enzo:~/erlang$ ghc euler12.hs -o euler12.hsx
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( euler12.hs, euler12.o )
Linking euler12.hsx ...
lorenzo@enzo:~/erlang$ time ./euler12.hsx 
842161320

real    2m37.326s
user    2m37.240s
sys 0m0.080s

简介:

C: 100% Python: 692% (PyPy占118%) Erlang: 436%(135%归功于RichardC) Haskell: 1421%

我认为C语言有一个很大的优势,因为它使用长来进行计算,而不是像其他三种那样使用任意长度的整数。它也不需要首先加载运行时(其他的呢?)

问题1: Erlang, Python和Haskell是否会因为使用任意长度的整数而降低速度,或者只要值小于MAXINT就不会?

问题2: 哈斯克尔为什么这么慢?是否有一个编译器标志关闭刹车或它是我的实现?(后者是很有可能的,因为Haskell对我来说是一本有七个印章的书。)

问题3: 你能否给我一些提示,如何在不改变我确定因素的方式的情况下优化这些实现?以任何方式优化:更好、更快、更“原生”的语言。

编辑:

问题4: 我的函数实现是否允许LCO(最后调用优化,也就是尾递归消除),从而避免在调用堆栈中添加不必要的帧?

虽然我不得不承认我的Haskell和Erlang知识非常有限,但我确实试图用这四种语言实现尽可能相似的相同算法。


使用的源代码:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int factorCount (long n)
{
    double square = sqrt (n);
    int isquare = (int) square;
    int count = isquare == square ? -1 : 0;
    long candidate;
    for (candidate = 1; candidate <= isquare; candidate ++)
        if (0 == n % candidate) count += 2;
    return count;
}

int main ()
{
    long triangle = 1;
    int index = 1;
    while (factorCount (triangle) < 1001)
    {
        index ++;
        triangle += index;
    }
    printf ("%ld\n", triangle);
}

#! /usr/bin/env python3.2

import math

def factorCount (n):
    square = math.sqrt (n)
    isquare = int (square)
    count = -1 if isquare == square else 0
    for candidate in range (1, isquare + 1):
        if not n % candidate: count += 2
    return count

triangle = 1
index = 1
while factorCount (triangle) < 1001:
    index += 1
    triangle += index

print (triangle)

-module (euler12).
-compile (export_all).

factorCount (Number) -> factorCount (Number, math:sqrt (Number), 1, 0).

factorCount (_, Sqrt, Candidate, Count) when Candidate > Sqrt -> Count;

factorCount (_, Sqrt, Candidate, Count) when Candidate == Sqrt -> Count + 1;

factorCount (Number, Sqrt, Candidate, Count) ->
    case Number rem Candidate of
        0 -> factorCount (Number, Sqrt, Candidate + 1, Count + 2);
        _ -> factorCount (Number, Sqrt, Candidate + 1, Count)
    end.

nextTriangle (Index, Triangle) ->
    Count = factorCount (Triangle),
    if
        Count > 1000 -> Triangle;
        true -> nextTriangle (Index + 1, Triangle + Index + 1)  
    end.

solve () ->
    io:format ("~p~n", [nextTriangle (1, 1) ] ),
    halt (0).

factorCount number = factorCount' number isquare 1 0 - (fromEnum $ square == fromIntegral isquare)
    where square = sqrt $ fromIntegral number
          isquare = floor square

factorCount' number sqrt candidate count
    | fromIntegral candidate > sqrt = count
    | number `mod` candidate == 0 = factorCount' number sqrt (candidate + 1) (count + 2)
    | otherwise = factorCount' number sqrt (candidate + 1) count

nextTriangle index triangle
    | factorCount triangle > 1000 = triangle
    | otherwise = nextTriangle (index + 1) (triangle + index + 1)

main = print $ nextTriangle 1 1

当前回答

只是为了好玩。下面是一个更“原生”的Haskell实现:

import Control.Applicative
import Control.Monad
import Data.Either
import Math.NumberTheory.Powers.Squares

isInt :: RealFrac c => c -> Bool
isInt = (==) <$> id <*> fromInteger . round

intSqrt :: (Integral a) => a -> Int
--intSqrt = fromIntegral . floor . sqrt . fromIntegral
intSqrt = fromIntegral . integerSquareRoot'

factorize :: Int -> [Int]
factorize 1 = []
factorize n = first : factorize (quot n first)
  where first = (!! 0) $ [a | a <- [2..intSqrt n], rem n a == 0] ++ [n]

factorize2 :: Int -> [(Int,Int)]
factorize2 = foldl (\ls@((val,freq):xs) y -> if val == y then (val,freq+1):xs else (y,1):ls) [(0,0)] . factorize

numDivisors :: Int -> Int
numDivisors = foldl (\acc (_,y) -> acc * (y+1)) 1 <$> factorize2

nextTriangleNumber :: (Int,Int) -> (Int,Int)
nextTriangleNumber (n,acc) = (n+1,acc+n+1)

forward :: Int -> (Int, Int) -> Either (Int, Int) (Int, Int)
forward k val@(n,acc) = if numDivisors acc > k then Left val else Right (nextTriangleNumber val)

problem12 :: Int -> (Int, Int)
problem12 n = (!!0) . lefts . scanl (>>=) (forward n (1,1)) . repeat . forward $ n

main = do
  let (n,val) = problem12 1000
  print val

使用ghc -O3,它在我的机器上持续运行0.55-0.58秒(1.73GHz Core i7)。

C版本中一个更有效的factorCount函数:

int factorCount (int n)
{
  int count = 1;
  int candidate,tmpCount;
  while (n % 2 == 0) {
    count++;
    n /= 2;
  }
    for (candidate = 3; candidate < n && candidate * candidate < n; candidate += 2)
    if (n % candidate == 0) {
      tmpCount = 1;
      do {
        tmpCount++;
        n /= candidate;
      } while (n % candidate == 0);
       count*=tmpCount;
      }
  if (n > 1)
    count *= 2;
  return count;
}

在main中使用gcc -O3 -lm将long类型更改为int类型,该程序始终在0.31-0.35秒内运行。

如果您利用第n个三角形数= n*(n+1)/2,并且n和(n+1)具有完全不同的质因数分解,则可以使两者运行得更快,因此可以将每个一半的因数数相乘,以得到整体的因数数。以下几点:

int main ()
{
  int triangle = 0,count1,count2 = 1;
  do {
    count1 = count2;
    count2 = ++triangle % 2 == 0 ? factorCount(triangle+1) : factorCount((triangle+1)/2);
  } while (count1*count2 < 1001);
  printf ("%lld\n", ((long long)triangle)*(triangle+1)/2);
}

将c代码的运行时间减少到0.17-0.19秒,它可以处理更大的搜索——大于10000个因数在我的机器上大约需要43秒。我给感兴趣的读者留下了类似的haskell加速。

其他回答

问题1:erlang, python和haskell会因为使用任意长度的整数而降低速度吗?还是只要值小于MAXINT就不会?

This is unlikely. I cannot say much about Erlang and Haskell (well, maybe a bit about Haskell below) but I can point a lot of other bottlenecks in Python. Every time the program tries to execute an operation with some values in Python, it should verify whether the values are from the proper type, and it costs a bit of time. Your factorCount function just allocates a list with range (1, isquare + 1) various times, and runtime, malloc-styled memory allocation is way slower than iterating on a range with a counter as you do in C. Notably, the factorCount() is called multiple times and so allocates a lot of lists. Also, let us not forget that Python is interpreted and the CPython interpreter has no great focus on being optimized.

编辑:哦,好吧,我注意到你使用的是Python 3,所以range()不返回一个列表,而是一个生成器。在这种情况下,我关于分配列表的观点有一半是错误的:该函数只是分配范围对象,尽管效率很低,但没有分配包含很多项的列表那么低。

问题2:为什么haskell这么慢?是否有一个编译器标志关闭刹车或它是我的实现?(后者很有可能,因为haskell对我来说是一本有七个印章的书。)

你在使用Hugs吗?Hugs是一个相当慢的解释器。如果你正在使用它,也许你可以得到一个更好的GHC时间-但我只是在思考假设,这种东西,一个好的Haskell编译器做的是非常迷人的,远远超出我的理解:)

问题3:你能给我一些提示吗?如何在不改变我确定因素的方式的情况下优化这些实现?以任何方式优化:更好、更快、更“原生”的语言。

我得说你在玩一场不好笑的游戏。了解各种语言最好的部分是尽可能以不同的方式使用它们:)但我离题了,我只是对这一点没有任何建议。对不起,我希望有人能在这种情况下帮助你:)

问题4:我的函数实现是否允许LCO,从而避免在调用堆栈中添加不必要的帧?

据我所知,您只需要确保您的递归调用是返回值之前的最后一个命令。换句话说,像下面这样的函数可以使用这样的优化:

def factorial(n, acc=1):
    if n > 1:
        acc = acc * n
        n = n - 1
        return factorial(n, acc)
    else:
        return acc

然而,如果你的函数如下所示,你就不会有这样的优化,因为在递归调用之后有一个操作(乘法):

def factorial2(n):
    if n > 1:
        f = factorial2(n-1)
        return f*n
    else:
        return 1

我将操作分隔在一些局部变量中,以便明确执行哪些操作。然而,最常见的是看到这些函数如下所示,但它们对于我所说的观点是等价的:

def factorial(n, acc=1):
    if n > 1:
        return factorial(n-1, acc*n)
    else:
        return acc

def factorial2(n):
    if n > 1:
        return n*factorial(n-1)
    else:
        return 1

注意,这是由编译器/解释器来决定是否进行尾递归。例如,如果我记得很清楚,Python解释器就不会这样做(我在示例中使用Python只是因为它的语法流畅)。不管怎样,如果你发现了一些奇怪的东西,比如带两个参数的阶乘函数(其中一个参数有acc, accumulator等名称),现在你知道为什么人们这样做了:)

我把“Jannich Brendle”版本改成了1000,而不是500。并列出euler12.bin, euler12.bin的结果。话务量,p12dist.erl。两个erl代码都使用'+native'进行编译。

zhengs-MacBook-Pro:workspace zhengzhibin$ time erl -noshell -s p12dist start
The result is: 842161320.

real    0m3.879s
user    0m14.553s
sys     0m0.314s
zhengs-MacBook-Pro:workspace zhengzhibin$ time erl -noshell -s euler12 solve
842161320

real    0m10.125s
user    0m10.078s
sys     0m0.046s
zhengs-MacBook-Pro:workspace zhengzhibin$ time ./euler12.bin 
842161320

real    0m5.370s
user    0m5.328s
sys     0m0.004s
zhengs-MacBook-Pro:workspace zhengzhibin$

在Python优化方面,除了使用PyPy(对代码进行零更改即可获得令人印象深刻的加速)之外,还可以使用PyPy的翻译工具链编译与rpython兼容的版本,或者使用Cython构建扩展模块,在我的测试中,这两种工具都比C版本快,而Cython模块的速度几乎是C版本的两倍。作为参考,我包括C和PyPy基准测试结果:

C(编译gcc -O3 -lm)

% time ./euler12-c 
842161320

./euler12-c  11.95s 
 user 0.00s 
 system 99% 
 cpu 11.959 total

PyPy 1.5

% time pypy euler12.py
842161320
pypy euler12.py  
16.44s user 
0.01s system 
99% cpu 16.449 total

RPython(使用最新的PyPy修订版,c2f583445aee)

% time ./euler12-rpython-c
842161320
./euler12-rpy-c  
10.54s user 0.00s 
system 99% 
cpu 10.540 total

崇拜0.15

% time python euler12-cython.py
842161320
python euler12-cython.py  
6.27s user 0.00s 
system 99% 
cpu 6.274 total

RPython版本有几个关键的变化。要转换成一个独立的程序,您需要定义目标,在本例中是主函数。它被期望接受sys。Argv作为它唯一的参数,并且需要返回一个int。你可以使用translate.py, % translate.py euler12-rpython.py来翻译它,它可以翻译成C语言并为你编译它。

# euler12-rpython.py

import math, sys

def factorCount(n):
    square = math.sqrt(n)
    isquare = int(square)
    count = -1 if isquare == square else 0
    for candidate in xrange(1, isquare + 1):
        if not n % candidate: count += 2
    return count

def main(argv):
    triangle = 1
    index = 1
    while factorCount(triangle) < 1001:
        index += 1
        triangle += index
    print triangle
    return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(sys.argv)

def target(*args):
    return main, None

Cython版本被重写为扩展模块_euler12。我从一个普通的python文件中导入并调用它。_euler12。Pyx本质上与您的版本相同,只是有一些额外的静态类型声明。setup.py有一个正常的样板来构建扩展,使用python setup.py build_ext——inplace。

# _euler12.pyx
from libc.math cimport sqrt

cdef int factorCount(int n):
    cdef int candidate, isquare, count
    cdef double square
    square = sqrt(n)
    isquare = int(square)
    count = -1 if isquare == square else 0
    for candidate in range(1, isquare + 1):
        if not n % candidate: count += 2
    return count

cpdef main():
    cdef int triangle = 1, index = 1
    while factorCount(triangle) < 1001:
        index += 1
        triangle += index
    print triangle

# euler12-cython.py
import _euler12
_euler12.main()

# setup.py
from distutils.core import setup
from distutils.extension import Extension
from Cython.Distutils import build_ext

ext_modules = [Extension("_euler12", ["_euler12.pyx"])]

setup(
  name = 'Euler12-Cython',
  cmdclass = {'build_ext': build_ext},
  ext_modules = ext_modules
)

老实说,我对RPython或Cython都没有什么经验,对结果感到惊喜。如果您正在使用CPython,那么在Cython扩展模块中编写cpu密集型代码似乎是优化程序的一种非常简单的方法。

看看您的Erlang实现。计时包括启动整个虚拟机、运行程序和停止虚拟机。我很确定设置和停止erlang vm需要一些时间。

If the timing was done within the erlang virtual machine itself, results would be different as in that case we would have the actual time for only the program in question. Otherwise, i believe that the total time taken by the process of starting and loading of the Erlang Vm plus that of halting it (as you put it in your program) are all included in the total time which the method you are using to time the program is outputting. Consider using the erlang timing itself which we use when we want to time our programs within the virtual machine itself timer:tc/1 or timer:tc/2 or timer:tc/3. In this way, the results from erlang will exclude the time taken to start and stop/kill/halt the virtual machine. That is my reasoning there, think about it, and then try your bench mark again.

实际上,我建议我们尝试在这些语言的运行时内为程序计时(对于具有运行时的语言),以便获得精确的值。例如,C不像Erlang、Python和Haskell那样有启动和关闭运行时系统的开销(98%确定-我可以纠正)。因此(基于这个推理)我总结说,这个基准测试对于运行在运行时系统之上的语言来说不够精确/公平。让我们用这些更改再做一次。

编辑:此外,即使所有的语言都有运行时系统,启动和停止它们的开销也会有所不同。因此,我建议我们从运行时系统内部计时(对于应用此方法的语言)。众所周知,Erlang VM在启动时有相当大的开销!

尝试:

package main

import "fmt"
import "math"

func main() {
    var n, m, c int
    for i := 1; ; i++ {
        n, m, c = i * (i + 1) / 2, int(math.Sqrt(float64(n))), 0
        for f := 1; f < m; f++ {
            if n % f == 0 { c++ }
    }
    c *= 2
    if m * m == n { c ++ }
    if c > 1001 {
        fmt.Println(n)
        break
        }
    }
}

我得到:

原始版本:9.1690 100% Go: 8.2520 111%

但使用:

package main

import (
    "math"
    "fmt"
 )

// Sieve of Eratosthenes
func PrimesBelow(limit int) []int {
    switch {
        case limit < 2:
            return []int{}
        case limit == 2:
            return []int{2}
    }
    sievebound := (limit - 1) / 2
    sieve := make([]bool, sievebound+1)
    crosslimit := int(math.Sqrt(float64(limit))-1) / 2
    for i := 1; i <= crosslimit; i++ {
        if !sieve[i] {
            for j := 2 * i * (i + 1); j <= sievebound; j += 2*i + 1 {
                sieve[j] = true
            }
        }
    }
    plimit := int(1.3*float64(limit)) / int(math.Log(float64(limit)))
    primes := make([]int, plimit)
    p := 1
    primes[0] = 2
    for i := 1; i <= sievebound; i++ {
        if !sieve[i] {
            primes[p] = 2*i + 1
            p++
            if p >= plimit {
                break
            }
        }
    }
    last := len(primes) - 1
    for i := last; i > 0; i-- {
        if primes[i] != 0 {
            break
        }
        last = i
    }
    return primes[0:last]
}



func main() {
    fmt.Println(p12())
}
// Requires PrimesBelow from utils.go
func p12() int {
    n, dn, cnt := 3, 2, 0
    primearray := PrimesBelow(1000000)
    for cnt <= 1001 {
        n++
        n1 := n
        if n1%2 == 0 {
            n1 /= 2
        }
        dn1 := 1
        for i := 0; i < len(primearray); i++ {
            if primearray[i]*primearray[i] > n1 {
                dn1 *= 2
                break
            }
            exponent := 1
            for n1%primearray[i] == 0 {
                exponent++
                n1 /= primearray[i]
            }
            if exponent > 1 {
                dn1 *= exponent
            }
            if n1 == 1 {
                break
            }
        }
        cnt = dn * dn1
        dn = dn1
    }
    return n * (n - 1) / 2
}

我得到:

原始版本:9.1690 100% Thaumkid的c版本:0.1060 8650% 首发版本:8.2520 111% 第二围棋版本:0.0230 39865%

我还尝试了Python3.6和pypy3.3-5.5-alpha:

原版本:8.629 100% Thaumkid的c版本:0.109 7916% python: 54.795 16% Pypy3.3-5.5-alpha: 13.291 65%

然后用下面的代码我得到:

原版本:8.629 100% Thaumkid的c版本:0.109 8650% Python3.6: 1.489 580% Pypy3.3-5.5-alpha: 0.582 1483%

def D(N):
    if N == 1: return 1
    sqrtN = int(N ** 0.5)
    nf = 1
    for d in range(2, sqrtN + 1):
        if N % d == 0:
            nf = nf + 1
    return 2 * nf - (1 if sqrtN**2 == N else 0)

L = 1000
Dt, n = 0, 0

while Dt <= L:
    t = n * (n + 1) // 2
    Dt = D(n/2)*D(n+1) if n%2 == 0 else D(n)*D((n+1)/2)
    n = n + 1

print (t)