[Numpy-discussion] Generating a (uniformly distributed) random bit list of length N

[David Goldsmith]

Thanks, St?fan, speed: N ~ 1e9.  Thanks again.

DG

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> Is np.random.randint(2, size=N) the fastest way to do this?  Thanks!
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> From: St?fan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za>
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> On 22 Sep 2013 23:04, "David Goldsmith" <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Is np.random.randint(2, size=N) the fastest way to do this?  Thanks!
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> Are you concerned about speed or memory use? The operation you show should
> already be quite fast. A more memory efficient approach would be to
> generate integers and use their binary representation.
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