On 1/26/2010 2:00 PM, Alan G Isaac wrote:
> Is this a fair test?
> I expected shuffle to be much faster
> (no array creation).
> Alan Isaac
>
>>>> import timeit
>>>>
>>>> setup = """
> ... import numpy as np
> ... prng = np.random.RandomState()
> ... N = 10**5
> ... indexes = np.arange(N)
> ... """
>>>>
>>>> print timeit.timeit('prng.shuffle(indexes)',setup, number=100)
> 5.69172311006
>>>> print timeit.timeit('indexes = prng.random_sample(N).argsort()',setup,
>>>> number=100)
> 1.54648202495
I suppose that is not fair.
But how about this?
>>> print
>>> timeit.timeit('indexes[prng.random_sample(N).argsort()]=indexes',setup,
>>> number=100)
1.76073257914
Alan Isaac
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