Hi there,
I need to make thousands of access to matrix elements in an algorithm that usually spend hours running. So, I want to implement this as much optimized as I can.
Then, supose I implement the matrix M by N using a vector.
long double *Matrix;
// alloc memory as a vector.
In this case I would access an element (i,j) like this:
long double Element = *(Matrix + (i-1)*N + j - 1);
Now, supose I implement the same matrix M by N as:
long double **Matrix;
// alloc memory as a matrix.
In this case I would access an element (i,j) using:
long double Element = *( *(Matrix + (i-1)) + j - 1);
The “-1” is because my matrixs are not zero-based ( of course you know that )
So, which one you think it would be faster? (Remember it is done thousands of times)
If you know assembly and compilers or have a point about that, please let me know.
Thanks