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-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-# Copyright(C) 2019-2020 Max-Planck-Society
-# Author: Martin Reinecke
-#
-# NIFTy is being developed at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik.
-
-from time import time
-
-import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
-import numpy as np
-
-import nifty7 as ift
-
-
-def main():
-    N0s, a0s, b0s, c0s = [], [], [], []
-
-    for ii in range(10, 26):
-        nu = 1024
-        nv = 1024
-        N = int(2**ii)
-        print('N = {}'.format(N))
-
-        rng = ift.random.current_rng()
-        uv = rng.uniform(-.5, .5, (N, 2))
-        vis = rng.normal(0., 1., N) + 1j*rng.normal(0., 1., N)
-
-        uvspace = ift.RGSpace((nu, nv))
-
-        visspace = ift.UnstructuredDomain(N)
-
-        img = rng.standard_normal((nu, nv))
-        img = ift.makeField(uvspace, img)
-
-        t0 = time()
-        op = ift.Gridder(uvspace, eps=1e-7, uv=uv).adjoint
-        vis = ift.makeField(visspace, vis)
-        t1 = time()
-        op(img).val
-        t2 = time()
-        op.adjoint(vis).val
-        t3 = time()
-        print(t2-t1, t3-t2)
-        N0s.append(N)
-        a0s.append(t1 - t0)
-        b0s.append(t2 - t1)
-        c0s.append(t3 - t2)
-
-    plt.scatter(N0s, a0s, label='Gridder mr')
-    plt.legend()
-    # no idea why this is necessary, but if it is omitted, the range is wrong
-    plt.ylim(min(a0s), max(a0s))
-    plt.ylabel('time [s]')
-    plt.title('Initialization')
-    plt.loglog()
-    plt.savefig('bench0.png')
-    plt.close()
-
-    plt.scatter(N0s, b0s, color='k', marker='^', label='Gridder mr times')
-    plt.scatter(N0s, c0s, color='k', label='Gridder mr adjoint times')
-    plt.legend()
-    plt.ylabel('time [s]')
-    plt.title('Apply')
-    plt.loglog()
-    plt.savefig('bench1.png')
-    plt.close()
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()