I am trying to compare the processing time for python list and numpy array. I know the fact that numpy arrays are faster than the python list but when I am checking practically I get lists are faster than numpy array.
Here is my code :
import numpy
from datetime import datetime
def pythonsum(n):
'''
This function calculates the sum of two python list
'''
a = list(range(n))
b = list(range(n))
c = []
total = 0
for i in range(len(a)):
a[i] = i ** 2
b[i] = i ** 3
c.append(a[i] + b[i])
return c
def numpysum(n):
'''
This function calculates the sum of two numpy array
'''
a = numpy.arange(n) ** 2
b = numpy.arange(n) ** 3
c = a + b
return c
if __name__ == "__main__":
n = int(input("enter the range"))
start = datetime.now()
result = pythonsum(n)
delta = datetime.now()-start
print("time required by pythonsum is",delta.microseconds)
start = datetime.now()
result1 = numpysum(n)
delta = datetime.now()-start
print("time required by numpysum is",delta.microseconds)
delta = datetime.now()-start
print("time required by numpysum is",delta.microseconds)
Output :
In [32]: run numpy_practice.py
enter the range7
time required by pythonsum is 0
time required by numpysum is 1001
Change the code bellow the boiler plate to this and use the timeit
module instead. This code allows me to execute the functions a number of times and return the mean ans standard deviation execution time.
if __name__ == "__main__":
import timeit
n = int(input("enter the range"))
setup = """\
import numpy as np
from __main__ import numpysum,pythonsum
n = {iterations}
""".format(iterations=n)
npex = numpy.array(timeit.repeat('numpysum(n)',setup=setup,repeat=100,number=1000))
pyex = numpy.array(timeit.repeat('pythonsum(n)',setup=setup,repeat=100,number=1000))
print("Numpy Execution Time, mean={m},std={sd}".format(m=npex.mean(),sd=npex.std(0)))
print("Python Execution Time, mean={m},std={sd}".format(m=pyex.mean(), sd=pyex.std(0)))
By testing with n = 100, it is clear that numpy is much faster
enter the range100
Numpy Execution Time, mean=0.00482892623162404,std=0.0005752600215192671
Python Execution Time, mean=0.1037349765653833,std=0.004933817536363718
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