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Re: Challenge! ....RESULTS...

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  • Subject: [mg1053] Re: Challenge! ....RESULTS...
  • From: jorma.virtamo at vtt.fi (Jorma Virtamo)
  • Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 14:10:43 -0400

roth at sunny.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de. (Arnd Roth) wrote:

>...

>Villegas' function 3    villegas at wri.com
>In[17]:=
>swap[list1_List, list2_List] := Thread @
>Unevaluated[If[Random[Integer] == 0, #1, #2]& [list1, list2]]
>In[18]:= Timing[Do[swap[l1,l2],{1000}]]
>Out[18]= {1.44 Second, Null}
>
>So Robby Villegas' function 3 is fastest among the solutions I
>tested. But of course there may still be room for further
>speedup.

Indeed, by writing the argument lists directly into the If function,

   swap[list1_List, list2_List] := Thread @
   Unevaluated[If[Random[Integer] == 0, list1, list2]]

the execution speeds up in my Pentium to 1.483 Second 
in contrast to 2.471 Second with the original form.

-- Jorma Virtamo


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