apache/spark — pull request #1378 by vrilleup (2014-07-11 23:19:33+00:00)
Title: use specialized axpy in RowMatrix for SVD

After running some more tests on large matrix, found that the BV axpy (breeze/linalg/Vector.scala, axpy) is slower than the BSV axpy (breeze/linalg/operators/SparseVectorOps.scala, sv_dv_axpy), 8s v.s. 2s for each multiplication. The BV axpy operates on an iterator while BSV axpy directly operates on the underlying array. I think the overhead comes from creating the iterator (with a zip) and advancing the pointers.