[Numpy-discussion] Select-based median (in light of code freeze)

Charles R Harris charlesr.harris at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 17:40:04 EDT 2012


On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Mike Ressler <mike.ressler at alum.mit.edu>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A couple of years ago there was a flurry of work partially at my
> instigation at SciPy 2009 to build a better median function based on a
> select algorithm rather than a sort algorithm. It seemed that it had
> progressed quite far, but the code in lib/function_base.py still uses
> a sort. Has the select work been abandoned or could it be merged in
> with a little spit-and-polish? (Or has it been and I'm just too naive
> to have seen it?) It seemed that the work had gotten quite close to
> release - I would hate to see it lost. (Not to mention I am greedy for
> the speed-up.)
>
>
I was thinking of adding quickselect, but if you have made a start ... go
for it. I think a good place to put the algorithm code would be in
numpy/core/src/npysort, but I don't think you should count on having it go
into 1.7.

Chuck.
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