How to make this faster

[Fábio Santos]

On 5 Jul 2013 11:58, "Helmut Jarausch" <jarausch at igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:13:33 +0100, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>
> > My one comment is that you're not really making the most out of numpy
> > arrays. Numpy's ndarrays are efficient when each line of Python code
> > is triggering a large number of numerical computations performed over
> > the array. Because of their N-dimensional nature and the fact that
> > they are in some sense second class citizens in CPython they are often
> > not as good as lists for this kind of looping and indexing.
> >
> > I would actually expect this program to run faster with ordinary
> > Python lists and lists of lists. It means that you need to change e.g.
> > Grid[r, c] to Grid[r][c] but really I think that the indexing syntax
> > is all you're getting out of numpy here.
> >
>
> Thanks Oscar, that was a big improvement, indeed.
> Using lists of lists instead of numpy arrays made the code more than
> twice as fast (13 seconds down to 6 seconds)
>
> Since I don't do any numerical stuff with the arrays, Numpy doesn't seem
to be
> a good choice. I think this is an argument to add real arrays to Python.
>
> I even tried to use dictionaries instead of Numpy arrays. This version is
a bit
> slower then the lists of lists version (7.2 seconds instead of 6 second)
but still
> much faster than the Numpy array solution.

May I suggest you avoid range and use enumerate(the_array) instead? It
might be faster.
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