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OCaml code to compute the nth derivative of x^x
open Printf
type expr =
| Int of int
| Var of string
| Add of expr * expr
| Mul of expr * expr
| Pow of expr * expr
| Ln of expr
let rec pown a = function
| 0 -> 1
| 1 -> a
| n ->
let b = pown a (n / 2) in
b * b * (if n mod 2 = 0 then 1 else a)
let rec add = function
| Int m, Int n -> Int(m + n)
| Int 0, f | f, Int 0 -> f
| f, Int n -> add(Int n, f)
| f, Add(Int n, g) -> add(Int n, add(f, g))
| Add(f, g), h -> add(f, add(g, h))
| f, g -> Add(f, g)
let rec mul = function
| Int m, Int n -> Int(m * n)
| Int 0, f | f, Int 0 -> Int 0
| Int 1, f | f, Int 1 -> f
| f, Int n -> mul(Int n, f)
| f, Mul(Int n, g) -> mul(Int n, mul(f, g))
| Mul(f, g), h -> mul(f, mul(g, h))
| f, g -> Mul(f, g)
let rec pow = function
| Int m, Int n -> Int(pown m n)
| f, Int 0 -> Int 1
| f, Int 1 -> f
| Int 0, f -> Int 0
| f, g -> Pow(f, g)
let ln = function
| Int 1 -> Int 0
| f -> Ln f
let rec d x = function
| Var y when x=y -> Int 1
| Int _ | Var _ -> Int 0
| Add(f, g) -> add(d x f, d x g)
| Mul(f, g) -> add(mul(f, d x g), mul(g, d x f))
| Pow(f, g) -> mul(pow(f, g), add(mul(mul(g, d x f), pow(f, Int(-1))), mul(ln f, d x g)))
| Ln f -> mul(d x f, pow(f, Int(-1)))
let rec count = function
| Int _ | Var _ -> 1
| Add(f, g) | Mul(f, g) | Pow(f, g) -> count f + count g
| Ln f -> count f
let rec string_of () = function
| Int n -> sprintf "%d" n
| Var x -> x
| Add(f, g) -> sprintf "%a + %a" string_of f string_of g
| Mul(f, g) -> sprintf "%a*%a" (bracket 2) f (bracket 2) g
| Pow(f, g) -> sprintf "%a^%a" (bracket 2) f (bracket 3) g
| Ln f -> sprintf "ln(%a)" string_of f
and prec = function
| Int _ | Var _ | Ln _ -> 4
| Pow _ -> 3
| Mul _ -> 2
| Add _ -> 1
and bracket outer () expr =
if outer > prec expr then
sprintf "(%a)" string_of expr
else
string_of () expr
let string_of_expr expr =
let n = count expr in
if n > 100 then sprintf "<<%d>>" n else
sprintf "%a" string_of expr
let rec nest n f x =
if n = 0 then x else
nest (n-1) f (f x)
let deriv f =
let d = d "x" f in
printf "D(%s) = %s\n%!" (string_of_expr f) (string_of_expr d);
d
let () =
let x = Var "x" in
let f = pow(x, x) in
ignore(nest (int_of_string Sys.argv.(1)) deriv f)
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jdh30 commented Nov 27, 2018

Jesse Tov has ported this to Rust using reference counting and he says "My Rust code compared to your OCaml is 2.7 times as many lines, and takes 1.4 times as long to run".

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jdh30 commented Feb 11, 2019

Guillaume P. ( @TeXitoi) has optimised that Rust to use an arena instead of reference counting and it is much faster.

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jdh30 commented Feb 25, 2019

@jduey has ported this benchmark to his (reference counted) Toccata language and optimised it to reduce the memory consumption so that it requires less memory than this (tracing garbage collected) OCaml code. https://github.com/jduey/deriv

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