This is again a post about python code speed, the data and inference are more than a few months old but still valid.
Here's a spreadsheet showing speed of array math operations (+, -, *, /) between numpy arrays and python lists.
Check this spreadsheet to see the timings of various operations
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AomYDYyBBNkkdHAtMkdHMF9TZ29lMmZQV3UwYkxWNFE&hl=en
The operations I considered for comparison were:
- x+0.1
- x-0.1
- x*0.1
- x/0.1
- x*(1/0.1)
- x+y
- x-y
- x*y
- x/y
- [p+yp[j] for j,p in enumerate(xp)]
- [xp[j]+yp[j] for j in xrange(i)]
The raw timings data is available here:
See the timings plot yourself
- Use numpy arrays for size > 10
- Avoid division as much as you can to improve the speed of your numerical codes
- Instead of x/0.1 do x*(1/0.1) . This itself causes large speedup as N is increased.
- x/0.1 and x/y take almost the same time
- +, -, * take almost same time, / takes much more time, and its expense increases as N is increased.
- Once again, do not divide.
- The same thing is valid in cython code also. Avoid division even in cython code, and even if you are using double instead of numpy arrays (buffer). Rewrite expressions to minimize the usage of division operator.
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