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      <h1>Performance benefit by using compiled model definitions in mkin</h1>
                        <h4 class="author">Johannes Ranke</h4>
            
            <h4 class="date">2016-11-04</h4>
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<div id="model-that-can-also-be-solved-with-eigenvalues" class="section level2">
<h2 class="hasAnchor"><html><body><a href="#model-that-can-also-be-solved-with-eigenvalues" class="anchor"> </a></body></html>Model that can also be solved with Eigenvalues</h2>
<p>This evaluation is taken from the example section of mkinfit. When using an mkin version equal to or greater than 0.9-36 and a C compiler (gcc) is available, you will see a message that the model is being compiled from autogenerated C code when defining a model using mkinmod. The <code><a href="../reference/mkinmod.html">mkinmod()</a></code> function checks for presence of the gcc compiler using</p>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r"><span class="kw">Sys.which</span>(<span class="st">"gcc"</span>)</code></pre></div>
<pre><code>##            gcc 
## "/usr/bin/gcc"</code></pre>
<p>First, we build a simple degradation model for a parent compound with one metabolite.</p>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r"><span class="kw">library</span>(<span class="st">"mkin"</span>)
SFO_SFO &lt;-<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinmod.html">mkinmod</a></span>(
  <span class="dt">parent =</span> <span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinsub.html">mkinsub</a></span>(<span class="st">"SFO"</span>, <span class="st">"m1"</span>),
  <span class="dt">m1 =</span> <span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinsub.html">mkinsub</a></span>(<span class="st">"SFO"</span>))</code></pre></div>
<pre><code>## Successfully compiled differential equation model from auto-generated C code.</code></pre>
<p>We can compare the performance of the Eigenvalue based solution against the compiled version and the R implementation of the differential equations using the microbenchmark package.</p>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r"><span class="kw">library</span>(<span class="st">"microbenchmark"</span>)
<span class="kw">library</span>(<span class="st">"ggplot2"</span>)
mb<span class="fl">.1</span> &lt;-<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw">microbenchmark</span>(
  <span class="st">"deSolve, not compiled"</span> =<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinfit.html">mkinfit</a></span>(SFO_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, 
                                    <span class="dt">solution_type =</span> <span class="st">"deSolve"</span>, 
                                    <span class="dt">use_compiled =</span> <span class="ot">FALSE</span>, <span class="dt">quiet =</span> <span class="ot">TRUE</span>),
  <span class="st">"Eigenvalue based"</span> =<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinfit.html">mkinfit</a></span>(SFO_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, 
                               <span class="dt">solution_type =</span> <span class="st">"eigen"</span>, <span class="dt">quiet =</span> <span class="ot">TRUE</span>),
  <span class="st">"deSolve, compiled"</span> =<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinfit.html">mkinfit</a></span>(SFO_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, 
                                <span class="dt">solution_type =</span> <span class="st">"deSolve"</span>, <span class="dt">quiet =</span> <span class="ot">TRUE</span>),
  <span class="dt">times =</span> <span class="dv">3</span>, <span class="dt">control =</span> <span class="kw">list</span>(<span class="dt">warmup =</span> <span class="dv">0</span>))</code></pre></div>
<pre><code>## Warning in microbenchmark(`deSolve, not compiled` = mkinfit(SFO_SFO,
## FOCUS_2006_D, : Could not measure overhead. Your clock might lack
## precision.</code></pre>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r">smb<span class="fl">.1</span> &lt;-<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw">summary</span>(mb<span class="fl">.1</span>)
<span class="kw">print</span>(mb<span class="fl">.1</span>)</code></pre></div>
<pre><code>## Unit: milliseconds
##                   expr       min        lq      mean    median        uq
##  deSolve, not compiled 6326.4518 6378.7429 6476.2219 6431.0341 6551.1069
##       Eigenvalue based  925.7797  935.9924  939.8725  946.2051  946.9189
##      deSolve, compiled  740.2821  750.0017  767.8440  759.7212  781.6249
##        max neval cld
##  6671.1797     3   b
##   947.6327     3  a 
##   803.5287     3  a</code></pre>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r"><span class="kw">autoplot</span>(mb<span class="fl">.1</span>)</code></pre></div>
<p><img src="compiled_models_files/figure-html/benchmark_SFO_SFO-1.png" width="672"></p>
<p>We see that using the compiled model is by a factor of 8.5 faster than using the R version with the default ode solver, and it is even faster than the Eigenvalue based solution implemented in R which does not need iterative solution of the ODEs:</p>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r"><span class="kw">rownames</span>(smb<span class="fl">.1</span>) &lt;-<span class="st"> </span>smb<span class="fl">.1</span>$expr
smb<span class="fl">.1</span>[<span class="st">"median"</span>]/smb<span class="fl">.1</span>[<span class="st">"deSolve, compiled"</span>, <span class="st">"median"</span>]</code></pre></div>
<pre><code>##                         median
## deSolve, not compiled 8.464993
## Eigenvalue based      1.245464
## deSolve, compiled     1.000000</code></pre>
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<h2 class="hasAnchor"><html><body><a href="#model-that-can-not-be-solved-with-eigenvalues" class="anchor"> </a></body></html>Model that can not be solved with Eigenvalues</h2>
<p>This evaluation is also taken from the example section of mkinfit.</p>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r">FOMC_SFO &lt;-<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinmod.html">mkinmod</a></span>(
  <span class="dt">parent =</span> <span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinsub.html">mkinsub</a></span>(<span class="st">"FOMC"</span>, <span class="st">"m1"</span>),
  <span class="dt">m1 =</span> <span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinsub.html">mkinsub</a></span>( <span class="st">"SFO"</span>))</code></pre></div>
<pre><code>## Successfully compiled differential equation model from auto-generated C code.</code></pre>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r">mb<span class="fl">.2</span> &lt;-<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw">microbenchmark</span>(
  <span class="st">"deSolve, not compiled"</span> =<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinfit.html">mkinfit</a></span>(FOMC_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, 
                                    <span class="dt">use_compiled =</span> <span class="ot">FALSE</span>, <span class="dt">quiet =</span> <span class="ot">TRUE</span>),
  <span class="st">"deSolve, compiled"</span> =<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw"><a href="../reference/mkinfit.html">mkinfit</a></span>(FOMC_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, <span class="dt">quiet =</span> <span class="ot">TRUE</span>),
  <span class="dt">times =</span> <span class="dv">3</span>, <span class="dt">control =</span> <span class="kw">list</span>(<span class="dt">warmup =</span> <span class="dv">0</span>))</code></pre></div>
<pre><code>## Warning in microbenchmark(`deSolve, not compiled` = mkinfit(FOMC_SFO,
## FOCUS_2006_D, : Could not measure overhead. Your clock might lack
## precision.</code></pre>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r">smb<span class="fl">.2</span> &lt;-<span class="st"> </span><span class="kw">summary</span>(mb<span class="fl">.2</span>)
<span class="kw">print</span>(mb<span class="fl">.2</span>)</code></pre></div>
<pre><code>## Unit: seconds
##                   expr       min        lq      mean    median        uq
##  deSolve, not compiled 13.619556 13.761382 13.825679 13.903207 13.928741
##      deSolve, compiled  1.316871  1.322577  1.358847  1.328283  1.379834
##        max neval cld
##  13.954275     3   b
##   1.431386     3  a</code></pre>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r">smb<span class="fl">.2</span>[<span class="st">"median"</span>]/smb<span class="fl">.2</span>[<span class="st">"deSolve, compiled"</span>, <span class="st">"median"</span>]</code></pre></div>
<pre><code>##   median
## 1     NA
## 2     NA</code></pre>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code class="sourceCode r"><span class="kw">autoplot</span>(mb<span class="fl">.2</span>)</code></pre></div>
<p><img src="compiled_models_files/figure-html/benchmark_FOMC_SFO-1.png" width="672"></p>
<p>Here we get a performance benefit of a factor of 10.5 using the version of the differential equation model compiled from C code!</p>
<p>This vignette was built with mkin 0.9.44.9000 on</p>
<pre><code>## R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
## Running under: Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)</code></pre>
<pre><code>## CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710MQ CPU @ 2.50GHz</code></pre>
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