⚡️ Speed up function compute_fixed_point by 48%

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📄 48% (0.48x) speedup for compute_fixed_point in quantecon/_compute_fp.py

⏱️ Runtime : 2.45 milliseconds → 1.66 milliseconds (best of 250 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimized code achieves a 48% speedup by replacing NumPy's np.max(np.abs(new_v - v)) with Numba-compiled functions that compute maximum absolute differences more efficiently.

Key optimizations:

1. Numba-compiled difference calculation: Added @njit(cache=True, fastmath=True) decorated functions _max_abs_diff() and _max_abs_diff_scalar() that replace the NumPy operation with optimized compiled loops. These functions avoid NumPy's intermediate array allocation and use direct iteration over flattened arrays.

2. Smart dispatch logic: The code detects numpy arrays with numeric dtypes (v.dtype.kind in 'fc') at the start of the iteration loop and uses the appropriate Numba function throughout the loop, avoiding repeated type checking.

3. Specialized scalar handling: For scalar floating-point values, uses _max_abs_diff_scalar() which simply computes abs(new_v - v) without NumPy overhead.

4. Enhanced _is_approx_fp() function: Applied the same Numba optimization to the approximate fixed-point checking function used in the imitation game method.

Why this provides speedup:

• Eliminates temporary arrays: NumPy's np.abs(new_v - v) creates intermediate arrays, while Numba computes differences in-place
• Compiled loop performance: Numba's JIT compilation produces optimized machine code that's faster than NumPy's generic array operations for element-wise operations
• Reduced function call overhead: Direct compiled loops avoid Python function call overhead present in NumPy operations

Performance benefits by test case:
The optimization shows significant gains across different scenarios:

• Scalar inputs: Up to 403% faster (e.g., test_simple_contraction_scalar)
• Small arrays: 96-140% faster for typical use cases
• Large arrays: 44-56% faster for vectors/matrices with 1000+ elements
• Imitation game method: 15-19% faster, benefiting from optimized _is_approx_fp

Hot path impact:
Based on function references showing compute_fixed_point is called in tight loops within quantecon's test suite for convergence analysis, this optimization significantly improves performance for iterative economic modeling workloads where fixed-point computation is repeatedly called.

✅ Correctness verification report:

Test	Status
⚙️ Existing Unit Tests	🔘 None Found
🌀 Generated Regression Tests	✅ 40 Passed
⏪ Replay Tests	🔘 None Found
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests	🔘 None Found
📊 Tests Coverage	94.6%

🌀 Generated Regression Tests and Runtime

import numpy as np
# imports
import pytest
from quantecon._compute_fp import compute_fixed_point

# --------------------------
# Basic Test Cases
# --------------------------

def test_identity_function_fixed_point():
    """
    Test that the identity function returns the initial value as the fixed point.
    """
    v = np.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0])
    T = lambda x: x
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=10, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 4.92μs -> 2.38μs (107% faster)

def test_constant_function_fixed_point():
    """
    Test that a constant function converges to the constant value.
    """
    const_val = np.array([4.0, 5.0])
    T = lambda x: const_val
    v = np.array([0.0, 0.0])
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=10, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 6.92μs -> 2.92μs (137% faster)

def test_linear_contraction_fixed_point():
    """
    Test a simple linear contraction mapping T(x) = 0.5*x + 1.
    Fixed point is x = 2.
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * x + 1
    v = np.array([0.0])
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-6, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 60.8μs -> 31.0μs (96.4% faster)

def test_scalar_input():
    """
    Test that the function works with scalar (not array) input.
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.25 * x
    v = 8.0
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v, error_tol=1e-6, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 34.5μs -> 7.25μs (375% faster)

def test_non_numpy_array_input():
    """
    Test with a Python list as input.
    """
    T = lambda x: np.array(x) * 0.5
    v = [2.0, 4.0]
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v, error_tol=1e-6, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 69.3μs -> 78.2μs (11.3% slower)

# --------------------------
# Edge Test Cases
# --------------------------

def test_zero_max_iter_raises():
    """
    Test that max_iter < 1 raises ValueError.
    """
    T = lambda x: x
    v = np.array([1.0])
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        compute_fixed_point(T, v, max_iter=0) # 583ns -> 667ns (12.6% slower)

def test_invalid_verbose_raises():
    """
    Test that invalid verbose raises ValueError.
    """
    T = lambda x: x
    v = np.array([1.0])
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        compute_fixed_point(T, v, verbose=42) # 583ns -> 583ns (0.000% faster)

def test_invalid_method_raises():
    """
    Test that invalid method raises ValueError.
    """
    T = lambda x: x
    v = np.array([1.0])
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        compute_fixed_point(T, v, method='not_a_method') # 583ns -> 625ns (6.72% slower)

def test_non_converging_function_warns():
    """
    Test that a non-converging function triggers a warning.
    """
    T = lambda x: x + 1
    v = np.array([0.0])
    with pytest.warns(RuntimeWarning):
        compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-12, max_iter=5, verbose=1) # 19.5μs -> 11.4μs (71.1% faster)

def test_in_place_modification():
    """
    Test that input array is modified in place if possible.
    """
    T = lambda x: x * 0.0
    v = np.array([1.0, 2.0])
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v, error_tol=1e-6, max_iter=10, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 8.12μs -> 4.54μs (78.9% faster)

def test_method_imitation_game_runs():
    """
    Test that the imitation_game method runs and returns a fixed point for a simple function.
    """
    # Use a simple contraction mapping
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * np.array(x)
    v = np.array([1.0, 2.0])
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-4, max_iter=10, verbose=0, method='imitation_game'); result = codeflash_output # 97.5μs -> 82.0μs (18.8% faster)

def test_high_dimensional_array():
    """
    Test with a higher-dimensional array input.
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * np.array(x)
    v = np.ones((2, 2, 2))
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-6, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 53.9μs -> 26.9μs (101% faster)

def test_negative_error_tol():
    """
    Test that negative error_tol still works (should converge only if error <= error_tol).
    """
    T = lambda x: x
    v = np.array([1.0])
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v, error_tol=-1.0, max_iter=2, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 7.00μs -> 2.92μs (140% faster)

# --------------------------
# Large Scale Test Cases
# --------------------------

def test_large_vector_contraction():
    """
    Test with a large vector and contraction mapping.
    """
    size = 1000
    T = lambda x: 0.9 * x
    v = np.ones(size)
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-6, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 294μs -> 188μs (56.2% faster)

def test_large_matrix_contraction():
    """
    Test with a large matrix and contraction mapping.
    """
    size = 50
    T = lambda x: 0.8 * x
    v = np.ones((size, size))
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-6, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 241μs -> 198μs (21.8% faster)

def test_large_vector_constant():
    """
    Test with a large vector and constant mapping.
    """
    size = 1000
    const_val = np.arange(size)
    T = lambda x: const_val
    v = np.zeros(size)
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=10, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 10.7μs -> 6.38μs (68.0% faster)

def test_large_vector_non_converging_warns():
    """
    Test that a large, non-converging mapping triggers a warning.
    """
    size = 1000
    T = lambda x: x + 1
    v = np.zeros(size)
    with pytest.warns(RuntimeWarning):
        compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-10, max_iter=3, verbose=1) # 16.8μs -> 12.7μs (32.1% faster)

def test_large_vector_imitation_game():
    """
    Test that imitation_game works for large vectors (within resource limits).
    """
    size = 10  # imitation_game is expensive; keep size small
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * np.array(x)
    v = np.ones(size)
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-3, max_iter=10, verbose=0, method='imitation_game'); result = codeflash_output # 98.6μs -> 83.2μs (18.5% faster)

# --------------------------
# Miscellaneous/Regression
# --------------------------

def test_error_tol_exact_zero():
    """
    Test that error_tol=0 requires exact fixed point.
    """
    T = lambda x: x
    v = np.array([42.0])
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v, error_tol=0.0, max_iter=10, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 4.62μs -> 2.12μs (118% faster)

def test_print_skip_and_verbose_2_runs():
    """
    Smoke test for print_skip and verbose=2 (output not checked).
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * x
    v = np.array([1.0])
    # Should not raise
    compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-2, max_iter=5, verbose=2, print_skip=2) # 31.8μs -> 22.5μs (41.4% faster)

def test_method_iteration_and_imitation_game_agree():
    """
    For a simple contraction, both methods should produce similar results.
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * np.array(x)
    v1 = np.array([1.0, 2.0])
    v2 = np.array([1.0, 2.0])
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v1.copy(), error_tol=1e-4, max_iter=10, verbose=0, method='iteration'); r1 = codeflash_output # 27.2μs -> 12.8μs (113% faster)
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v2.copy(), error_tol=1e-4, max_iter=10, verbose=0, method='imitation_game'); r2 = codeflash_output # 90.4μs -> 76.0μs (19.0% faster)
# codeflash_output is used to check that the output of the original code is the same as that of the optimized code.

import numpy as np
# imports
import pytest
from quantecon._compute_fp import compute_fixed_point

# function to test (compute_fixed_point) is assumed to be imported

# -------------------
# Basic Test Cases
# -------------------

def test_identity_function_scalar():
    """
    Test with the identity function on a scalar.
    Should converge immediately.
    """
    T = lambda x: x
    v = 5.0
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v, error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=10, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 6.88μs -> 1.96μs (251% faster)

def test_identity_function_array():
    """
    Test with the identity function on a numpy array.
    Should converge immediately.
    """
    T = lambda x: x
    v = np.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0])
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=10, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 4.54μs -> 2.08μs (118% faster)

def test_simple_contraction_scalar():
    """
    Test with a contraction mapping T(x) = 0.5 * x + 1 on a scalar.
    Fixed point is x = 2.
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * x + 1
    v = 0.0
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v, error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 65.2μs -> 13.0μs (403% faster)

def test_simple_contraction_array():
    """
    Test with a contraction mapping on an array.
    T(x) = 0.5 * x + 1, fixed point is [2, 2, 2].
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * x + 1
    v = np.zeros(3)
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 80.2μs -> 40.4μs (98.7% faster)

def test_linear_map():
    """
    Test with a linear map T(x) = Ax + b where A has spectral radius < 1.
    Fixed point is (I-A)^-1 b.
    """
    A = np.array([[0.5, 0.0], [0.0, 0.2]])
    b = np.array([1.0, -1.0])
    T = lambda x: A @ x + b
    v = np.array([0.0, 0.0])
    expected = np.linalg.solve(np.eye(2) - A, b)
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 76.6μs -> 38.7μs (98.1% faster)

# -------------------
# Edge Test Cases
# -------------------

def test_zero_iterations_raises():
    """
    max_iter < 1 should raise ValueError.
    """
    T = lambda x: x
    v = 0.0
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        compute_fixed_point(T, v, max_iter=0) # 625ns -> 625ns (0.000% faster)

def test_invalid_verbose_raises():
    """
    Invalid verbose value should raise ValueError.
    """
    T = lambda x: x
    v = 0.0
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        compute_fixed_point(T, v, verbose=3) # 583ns -> 541ns (7.76% faster)

def test_invalid_method_raises():
    """
    Invalid method should raise ValueError.
    """
    T = lambda x: x
    v = 0.0
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        compute_fixed_point(T, v, method='not_a_method') # 583ns -> 583ns (0.000% faster)

def test_non_converging_map_warns():
    """
    Map that never converges should emit a warning.
    """
    T = lambda x: x + 1
    v = 0.0
    with pytest.warns(RuntimeWarning):
        codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v, error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=5, verbose=1); result = codeflash_output # 19.0μs -> 6.46μs (195% faster)

def test_inplace_array_update():
    """
    Test that in-place update works for numpy arrays.
    """
    T = lambda x: x * 0.0 + 3.0
    v = np.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0])
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=10, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 12.2μs -> 7.62μs (60.1% faster)

def test_method_imitation_game_runs():
    """
    Test that the imitation_game method runs (smoke test).
    """
    # Use a trivial contraction map
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * x + 1
    v = np.zeros(2)
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-3, max_iter=10, verbose=0, method='imitation_game'); result = codeflash_output # 110μs -> 92.6μs (19.4% faster)

def test_error_tol_zero():
    """
    Test with error_tol=0. Should only stop at fixed point or max_iter.
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * x + 1
    v = 0.0
    # Should converge to 2.0 in infinite iterations, but stop at max_iter
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v, error_tol=0.0, max_iter=20, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 49.9μs -> 10.3μs (385% faster)

def test_high_dimensional_array():
    """
    Test with a 2D array.
    Fixed point for T(x) = 0.5*x + 2 is all 4s.
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * x + 2
    v = np.zeros((3, 2))
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-6, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 67.0μs -> 35.3μs (89.8% faster)

def test_large_array_contraction():
    """
    Test with a large array (length 1000) and a contraction mapping.
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.9 * x + 1.0
    v = np.zeros(1000)
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-6, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 356μs -> 247μs (44.3% faster)

def test_large_array_non_converging_warns():
    """
    Large array, non-converging mapping, should warn and return last iterate.
    """
    T = lambda x: x + 1.0
    v = np.zeros(1000)
    with pytest.warns(RuntimeWarning):
        codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-8, max_iter=10, verbose=1); result = codeflash_output # 37.6μs -> 26.8μs (40.4% faster)

def test_large_array_imitation_game():
    """
    Large array with imitation_game method. Should converge for contraction.
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.5 * x + 1.0
    v = np.zeros(20)
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-3, max_iter=20, verbose=0, method='imitation_game'); result = codeflash_output # 122μs -> 105μs (15.8% faster)

def test_large_2d_array_contraction():
    """
    Test with a large 2D array (50x20) and a contraction mapping.
    """
    T = lambda x: 0.8 * x + 2.0
    v = np.zeros((50, 20))
    codeflash_output = compute_fixed_point(T, v.copy(), error_tol=1e-5, max_iter=100, verbose=0); result = codeflash_output # 204μs -> 142μs (42.8% faster)
# codeflash_output is used to check that the output of the original code is the same as that of the optimized code.

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