[Numpy-discussion] Numpy performance vs Matlab.
Ryan May
rmay31 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 10:44:50 EST 2009
Nicolas ROUX wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need help ;-)
> I have here a testcase which works much faster in Matlab than Numpy.
>
> The following code takes less than 0.9sec in Matlab, but 21sec in Python.
> Numpy is 24 times slower than Matlab !
> The big trouble I have is a large team of people within my company is ready to replace Matlab by Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib,
> but I have to demonstrate that this kind of Python Code is executed with the same performance than Matlab, without writing C extension.
> This is becoming a critical point for us.
>
> This is a testcase that people would like to see working without any code restructuring.
> The reasons are:
> - this way of writing is fairly natural.
> - the original code which showed me the matlab/Numpy performance differences is much more complex,
> and can't benefit from broadcasting or other numpy tips (I can later give this code)
>
> ...So I really need to use the code below, without restructuring.
>
> Numpy/Python code:
> #####################################################################
> import numpy
> import time
>
> print "Start test \n"
>
> dim = 3000
>
> a = numpy.zeros((dim,dim,3))
>
> start = time.clock()
>
> for i in range(dim):
> for j in range(dim):
> a[i,j,0] = a[i,j,1]
> a[i,j,2] = a[i,j,0]
> a[i,j,1] = a[i,j,2]
>
> end = time.clock() - start
>
> print "Test done, %f sec" % end
> #####################################################################
<SNIP>
> Any idea on it ?
> Did I missed something ?
I think you may have reduced the complexity a bit too much. The python code
above sets all of the elements equal to a[i,j,1]. Is there any reason you can't
use slicing to avoid the loops?
Ryan
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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
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