[Numpy-discussion] Histograms of extremely large data sets
eric jones
eric at enthought.com
Thu Dec 14 14:27:35 EST 2006
I just noticed a bug in this code. "PyArray_ITER_NEXT(iter);" should be moved out of the if statement.
eric
eric jones wrote:
>
>
> Rick White wrote:
>> Just so we don't get too smug about the speed, if I do this in IDL
>> on the same machine it is 10 times faster (0.28 seconds instead of
>> 4 seconds). I'm sure the IDL version uses the much faster approach
>> of just sweeping through the array once, incrementing counts in the
>> appropriate bins. It only handles equal-sized bins, so it is not as
>> general as the numpy version -- but equal-sized bins is a very
>> common case. I'd still like to see a C version of histogram (which
>> I guess would need to be a ufunc) go into the core numpy.
>>
> Yes, this gets rid of the search, and indices can just be caluclated
> from offsets. I've attached a modified weaved histogram that takes
> this approach. Running the snippet below on my machine takes .118 sec
> for the evenly binned weave algorithm and 0.385 sec for Rick's
> algorithm on 5 million elements. That is close to 4x faster (but not
> 10x...), so there is indeed some speed to be gained for the common
> special case. I don't know if the code I wrote has a 2x gain left in
> it, but I've spent zero time optimizing it. I'd bet it can be
> improved substantially.
>
> eric
>
> ### test_weave_even_histogram.py
>
> from numpy import arange, product, sum, zeros, uint8
> from numpy.random import randint
>
> import weave_even_histogram
>
> import time
>
> shape = 1000,1000,5
> size = product(shape)
> data = randint(0,256,size).astype(uint8)
> bins = arange(256+1)
>
> print 'type:', data.dtype
> print 'millions of elements:', size/1e6
>
> bin_start = 0
> bin_size = 1
> bin_count = 256
> t1 = time.clock()
> res = weave_even_histogram.histogram(data, bin_start, bin_size,
> bin_count)
> t2 = time.clock()
> print 'sec (evenly spaced):', t2-t1, sum(res)
> print res
>
>
>> Rick
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>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> from numpy import array, zeros, asarray, sort, int32
> from scipy import weave
> from typed_array_converter import converters
>
> def histogram(ary, bin_start, bin_size, bin_count):
>
> ary = asarray(ary)
>
> # Create an array to hold the histogram count results.
> results = zeros(bin_count,dtype=int32)
>
> # The C++ code that actually does the histogramming.
> code = """
> PyArrayIterObject *iter = (PyArrayIterObject*)PyArray_IterNew(py_ary);
>
> while(iter->index < iter->size)
> {
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> // binary search
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> // This requires an update to weave
> ary_data_type value = *((ary_data_type*)iter->dataptr);
> if (value>=bin_start)
> {
> int bin_index = (int)((value-bin_start)/bin_size);
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> // Bin counter increment
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> // If the value was found, increment the counter for that bin.
> if (bin_index < bin_count)
> {
> results[bin_index]++;
> }
> PyArray_ITER_NEXT(iter);
> }
> }
> """
> weave.inline(code, ['ary', 'bin_start', 'bin_size','bin_count', 'results'],
> type_converters=converters,
> compiler='gcc')
>
> return results
>
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