On Jul 4, 3:29 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > mclovin wrote: > > [snip] > > > like I said I need to do this 480,000 times so to get this done > > realistically I need to analyse about 5 a second. It appears that the > > average matrix size contains about 15 million elements. > > > I threaded my program using your code and I did about 1,000 in an hour > > so it is still much too slow. > > > When I selected 1 million random elements to count, 8 out of the top > > 10 of those were in the top 25 of the precise way and 18 of the 25 > > were in the top 25 of the precise way. so I suppose that could be an > > option. > > The values are integers, aren't they? What is the range of values?
There are appox 550k unique values with a range of 0-2million with gaps. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
