why it takes too long time to run firefly algorithm?

I am using firefly algorithm to get optimal values of PID parameters for my system . I am using a simulink model simulating controller and plant . the problem here that when i run the algorithm it takes too long time may be 3 or 4 hours to run only 100 iterations how can I speed up the algorithm ?

[Fer Ruiz]

Hi, could you share your code?

[Jan]

Use the profiler to find the bottleneck. Maybe you are running out of memory and the slow disk swapping is responsible. Or you store temporary files on a slow network drive. The readers cannot guess what happens on your computer and of course they cannot recommend to use the hidden tool fireflyMuchFaster, which is revealed for insiders only.

[chaker ben salem]

am having the same problem, not for hours, but longer then other algorithms on the same problem, it takes 1 min for pso but 20 for firefly algorithm on a 500 iteration

[Fatih D.]

Some kind of the firefly algorithm may evaluates the objective function more than the number of population times iteration like the other algorithms because of its code structure.