/// <summary>
/// this function can estimate the amount of time that is likely saved due to uint hash comparison by the apriori algorithm on a specific dataset
/// </summary>
/// <param name="attributes">number of attributes in the dataset header; @attribute a1 {..}</param>
/// <param name="attribute_values">median of attribute value count in the attributes; @attribute .. { val1, val2, val3, .. }</param>
/// <param name="dataset_columns">@data row (instances) count of the dataset</param>
/// <param name="percentage">percentage (5%-85%) of item-pair checks that might be avoided by the algorithm (speeds it up)</param>
/// <returns>[0] = calculated comparisons, [1] = uint comparison time, [2] = string comparison time (times are milliseconds) </returns>
public static long[] run_int_vs_string_comparison(int attributes = 10, int attribute_values = 5, int dataset_columns = 50000, int percentage = 30)
{
//calculate the number of comparisons from the scenario
long compare_num = (long)((double)(((attributes * attribute_values) * (attributes * attribute_values) / 2) * dataset_columns * attributes) * ((double)percentage / 100));
string _s1 = "association rules mining";
string _s2 = "apriori data mining algorithm";
string _s3 = "algorithm mining data apriori";
MurmurHash2Simple hash = new MurmurHash2Simple();
uint _i1 = get_representative_int_hash(hash, _s1);
uint _i2 = get_representative_int_hash(hash, _s2);
uint _i3 = get_representative_int_hash(hash, _s3);
long uints = -1;
long strings = -1;
Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();
long do_something_1 = 0;
long do_something_2 = 0;
//comparing hashes
for (long i = 0; i < compare_num; i++)
{
if (i % 2 == 0)
{
if (_s1 == _s2) //doing the same thing will be optimized by the compiler..
{
do_something_1++;
}
}
else
{
if (_s1 == _s3) //therefore another one here
{
do_something_2++;
}
}
}
strings = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;
do_something_1 = 0;
do_something_2 = 0;
sw.Restart();
//comparing strings
for (long i = 0; i < compare_num; i++)
{
if (i % 2 == 0)
{
if (_i1 == _i2) //doing the same thing will be optimized by the compiler..
{
do_something_1++;
}
}
else
{
if (_i1 == _i3) //therefore another one here
{
do_something_2++;
}
}
}
uints = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;
Helpers.Utils.Debug(string.Format("Compared {0} times; uints took {1} ms, strings took {2} ms.", compare_num, uints, strings));
return new long[] { compare_num, uints, strings};
}
/// <summary>
/// turns string into representative (murmur2) uint hash
/// </summary>
/// <param name="hash"></param>
/// <param name="dataset_column"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static uint get_representative_int_hash(MurmurHash2Simple hash, string dataset_column)
{
return hash.Hash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(dataset_column));
}