OpenMDAO/OpenMDAO-Framework — pull request #1580 by Kenneth-T-Moore (2014-01-17 23:00:49+00:00)
Title: Performance Improvements 1

1. Created directory for benchmarks. A few have been placed there.

2. Kriging Surrogate Model
- Major speedup of training: 40.99 sec -> 2.38 sec for kriging_isolated.py benchmark
- Some linting
- This also speeds up some tests (like EI).

3. Scalable problem in OptProblems
- fixed a mistake in apply_deriv
- some linting

4. Derivatives.py
- minor performance tweak in pre_process_dicts. For an array in OpenMDAO, it is faster to get the basevar and then eval it to return the slice.
- Added another test for something that wasn't covered