extremely slow array indexing?

[Grace Fang]

Hi will,Thanks for your reply. The simplified code is as follows, and
you can run it if you like. It takes 7 seconds to process 1000 rows,
which is tolerable, but I wonder why it takes so long, because I also
did one for loop through all of the same rows without accessing array,
which only takes 1 sec to process 1000 rows.  Isn't vectorized
operation supposed to run very quickly?

from numpy import *
componentcount = 300000
currSum = zeros(componentcount)
row = zeros(componentcount) #current row
rowcount = 50000
for i in range(1,rowcount):
    row[:] = 1
    currSum = currSum + row;

> Array indexing is unlikely to be the culprit. Could it not just be
> slow, because you are processing a lot of data? With numbers those big
> I would expect to have enough time to go make a coffee, then drink it.
>
> If you think it is slower than it could be, post more code for
> optimization advice...
> 
> Will McGugan
> --
> http://www.willmcgugan.com