On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Warren Weckesser < warren.weckes...@enthought.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Charles R Harris < > charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I've been contemplating new functions that could be added to numpy and >> thought I'd run them by folks to see if there is any interest. >> >> 1) Modified sort/argsort functions that return the maximum k values. >> This is easy to do with heapsort and almost as easy with mergesort. >> >> > > While you're at, how about a function that finds both the max and min in > one pass? (Mentioned previously in this thread: > http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2010-June/051072.html) > > > +1 from myself and probably just about anybody in matplotlib. If both the maxs and mins are searched during the same run through an array, I would imagine that would result in a noticeable speedup with automatic range finding. Ben Root
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