speeding up Python script

[Robert Kern]

Luis P. Mendes wrote:
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> The reason why I'm using six nested for loops is because I need to find
> the best output using those six variables as input.
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> Here's the simplified code:
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> for per in range():
> ~    for s in range():
> ~        for t in range():
> 	    for v in range():
> ~                for n in range():
> ~                    for l in range():

What's the size of each dimension in the parameter space? If you 
absolutely need an exhaustive search, then you are going to have to live 
with the long runtimes. The fact that psyco didn't help significantly 
suggests that Python optimizations aren't going to help much.

You should examine your problem and determine if you really need an 
exhaustive search or if you can live with some other search strategy. 
Read up on "combinatorial optimzation" and "discrete optimization."

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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