Use Index_CreateWithArray to build mesh spatial index#4865
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This is fantastic. So often performance improvements come down to "we were doing something quite silly before".
@achanbour this PR is likely of interest to you, if you haven't seen it yet.
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| with PETSc.Log.Event("cells_data_as"): | ||
| cells_data = cells.ctypes.data_as(ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int)) | ||
| with PETSc.Log.Event("ref_cell_dists_l1_as"): |
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This seems like an unnecessary number of events to be timing.
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I will remove these before merging
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Ah OK. In future if you ask me for a review please tell me if I can ignore bits of it.
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And you should definitely leave some of them in there
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Before we were looping over bounding box coords and calling
Index_InsertDataone by one which was a big bottleneck. libspatialindex has a function which can build a spatial index in one go from an array: https://libspatialindex.org/en/latest/doxygen/sidx__api_8cc.html#a36737b1629d8a96458e7f437484f5a84Building the spatial index in this example went from ~15s on my machine to ~0.9s