"extending" BinCounts, need for speed
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg15871] "extending" BinCounts, need for speed
- From: Olivier Pelletier <pelletie at lps.u-psud.fr>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:33:29 -0500
- Organization: Universite Paris-Sud, France.
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, I have a huge (i.e. Length[list]>50000) list of points (a point being a list {ai,bi}) I need to process it using a BinCounts-like function doing the following: if ai is in the i-th "bin" then I should add bi to the value of this bin. (BinCounts takes a list of numbers and adds unity to the bin corresponding to the value of the number). Using Do[bin[[ai]]+= bi, {i,Length[my_list]}] simply takes too much time. Any suggestion to improve the speed. Thanks to everyone in advance Olivier