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title: "Performance benefit by using compiled model definitions in mkin"
author: "Johannes Ranke"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
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```{r, include = FALSE}
library(knitr)
opts_chunk$set(tidy = FALSE, cache = TRUE)
```
## Benchmark for a model that can also be solved with Eigenvalues
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 compiler (gcc) is installed, you will see
a message that the model is being compiled from autogenerated C code when
defining a model using mkinmod. The package tests for presence of the gcc compiler using
```{r check_gcc}
Sys.which("gcc")
```
First, we build a simple degradation model for a parent compound with one metabolite.
```{r create_SFO_SFO}
library("mkin")
SFO_SFO <- mkinmod(
parent = mkinsub("SFO", "m1"),
m1 = mkinsub("SFO"))
```
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.
```{r benchmark_SFO_SFO}
library("microbenchmark")
mb.1 <- microbenchmark(
mkinfit(SFO_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, solution_type = "deSolve", use_compiled = FALSE,
quiet = TRUE),
mkinfit(SFO_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, solution_type = "eigen", quiet = TRUE),
mkinfit(SFO_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, solution_type = "deSolve", quiet = TRUE),
times = 3, control = list(warmup = 1))
smb.1 <- summary(mb.1)[-1]
rownames(smb.1) <- c("deSolve, not compiled", "Eigenvalue based", "deSolve, compiled")
print(smb.1)
```
We see that using the compiled model is by a factor of
`r round(smb.1["deSolve, not compiled", "median"]/smb.1["deSolve, compiled", "median"], 1)`
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:
```{r}
smb.1["median"]/smb.1["deSolve, compiled", "median"]
```
## Benchmark for a model that can not be solved with Eigenvalues
This evaluation is also taken from the example section of mkinfit.
```{r benchmark_FOMC_SFO}
FOMC_SFO <- mkinmod(
parent = mkinsub("FOMC", "m1"),
m1 = mkinsub( "SFO"))
mb.2 <- microbenchmark(
mkinfit(FOMC_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, use_compiled = FALSE, quiet = TRUE),
mkinfit(FOMC_SFO, FOCUS_2006_D, quiet = TRUE),
times = 3, control = list(warmup = 1))
smb.2 <- summary(mb.2)[-1]
rownames(smb.2) <- c("deSolve, not compiled", "deSolve, compiled")
print(smb.2)
smb.2["median"]/smb.2["deSolve, compiled", "median"]
```
Here we get a performance benefit of a factor of
`r round(smb.2["deSolve, not compiled", "median"]/smb.2["deSolve, compiled", "median"], 1)`
using the version of the differential equation model compiled from C code using
the inline package!
This vignette was built with mkin `r packageVersion("mkin")` on
```{r sessionInfo, echo = FALSE}
cat(capture.output(sessionInfo())[1:3], sep = "\n")
if(!inherits(try(cpuinfo <- readLines("/proc/cpuinfo")), "try-error")) {
cat(gsub("model name\t: ", "CPU model: ", cpuinfo[grep("model name", cpuinfo)[1]]))
}
```
