The biggest change is that all of the plotting routines now use Coyote Graphics (and accept /WINDOW and /ADDCMD keywords). There's also a new routine UNIQIFY that returns the unique elements of an array (for when you get sick of typing foo[foo_sorted[uniq(foo[foo_sorted])]]), and SPLINEOPLOT has been rename SPLINEPLOT and modified slightly.
I also thought that you might be entertained by what my boss had to say about MATCH_SPH, once I finally got him to try it out:
"Holy shit! I cannot believe how much faster that is than srcor. I kept on putting off reading it in... But I needed to x-correlate 300Kx300K, and it was going to take me days (literally). your routine did it in 5 seconds."
On Saturday, March 12, 2011 10:21:35 PM UTC-5, Jeremy Bailin wrote: > I also thought that you might be entertained by what my boss had to say about MATCH_SPH, once I finally got him to try it out:
> "Holy shit! I cannot believe how much faster that is than srcor. I kept on > putting off reading it in... But I needed to x-correlate 300Kx300K, and it > was going to take me days (literally). your routine did it in 5 seconds."
To be fair , he was most likely using a pre-March 2009 version of srcor.pro in the Astron library, which is when it was updated to dramatically improve the speed for spherical matching.
On the other hand, I was just informed about a bug in srcor.pro when the sources are spread over more than half the sky, so maybe it was better to be using a different routine. I'll have an update to srcor.pro soon. --Wayne
On Saturday, March 12, 2011 11:30:14 PM UTC-5, wlandsman wrote: > On Saturday, March 12, 2011 10:21:35 PM UTC-5, Jeremy Bailin wrote:
> > I also thought that you might be entertained by what my boss had to say about MATCH_SPH, once I finally got him to try it out:
> > "Holy shit! I cannot believe how much faster that is than srcor. I kept on > > putting off reading it in... But I needed to x-correlate 300Kx300K, and it > > was going to take me days (literally). your routine did it in 5 seconds."
> To be fair , he was most likely using a pre-March 2009 version of srcor.pro in the Astron library, which is when it was updated to dramatically improve the speed for spherical matching.
Yeah, probably - I was surprised when he said it was almost 4 orders of magnitude faster, since it was more like a factor of 60-70 in my tests.