El dl 23 de 04 del 2007 a les 12:47 -0400, en/na Anne Archibald va escriure:
On 23/04/07, Pierre GM
wrote: Note that in addition of the bitwise operators, you can use the "logical_" functions. OK, you'll still end up w/ temporaries, but I wonder whether there couldn't be some tricks to bypass that...
If you're really determined not to make many temps, you can use their output arguments and do it all in-place on the first temporary. The few times I've rewritten code that way it hasn't made an appreciable positive difference in the speed, and it was sometimes significantly slower, perhaps because of the increased memory footprint (the temps were longer-lived than when I did it by hand). malloc() is really really cheap, and garbage collection is also extremely cheap for huge arrays.
Or you can use numexpr. Numexpr doesn't need temporaries (provided that all the arrays in the expresion are contiguous). It only uses a small buffer for carrying out computations whose size is, when compared with large matrices, negligible. It is also usally faster than the pure NumPy approach: # Pure NumPy
Timer("c=(i>2) | ((f**2>3) & ~(i*f<2))", "import numpy; i=numpy.arange(10**6); f=numpy.random.rand(10**6)").repeat(3, 10) [0.55586099624633789, 0.55565214157104492, 0.556427001953125]
Timer("c=numexpr.evaluate('(i>2) | ((f**2>3) & ~(i*f<2))')", "import
# Using Numexpr tables; import tables.numexpr as numexpr; import numpy; i=numpy.arange(10**6); f=numpy.random.rand(10**6)").repeat(3, 10) [0.25569510459899902, 0.25547599792480469, 0.25554895401000977] I've used here the numexpr instance that comes with PyTables, but you can use also the one in the scipy's sandbox as it also supports booleans since some months ago. Cheers, -- Francesc Altet | Be careful about using the following code -- Carabos Coop. V. | I've only proven that it works, www.carabos.com | I haven't tested it. -- Donald Knuth