Less time consuming substitution for if conditional

I have a long script with lots of if conditional and it takes a long time to run the code. Any suggestion to make it efficient for example a less time consuming substitution for if conditional.

for example:

    if rim==core
        rim=rim+1;
    end

Can I change above if conditional to shorter script?

Answer 1

[John D'Errico]

I think you are focusing on the wrong things. This is NOT a slow operation.

Very likely, this is part of a large, inefficiently written code, where you are doing tests like that for the wrong reason. But we don't see your code.

So the first thing you should do is learn to use the profiler. It will tell you what lines of code are taking a lot of time. Then focus on them.

As importantly though, my guess is as I said, that your entire code is written inefficiently. You need to learn to use vectorized operations, where operations will apply to an entire set of values at once. That is how you will find significant speed boosts, NOT by hoping to save a hundreth of a millisecond on a simple test like that.

[Zeynab Mousavikhamene]

@ John D'Errico: I am doing vectorized operations like varfun that works on etire set but I need to search specific criteria in each parameter of the set. I donot think there is a faster speed: No matter the design of the code, it needs to check each member of the vector for specific property.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

rim(rim == core) = core+1;