Re: reducing the time of constructing a List
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg57561] Re: reducing the time of constructing a List
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 06:01:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Washington
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<marloo3 at mail15.com> wrote in message news:d7haeo$3pa$1 at smc.vnet.net... > please, what is the best way to reduce the timing of the following lines, > the > source of data is: > dat = Table[Random[Integer, {0, 10}], {100000}]; > and the purpose is to construct the List lst in the following way: > For[i = 1, i <= 100000, > If [dat[[i]] == 1, > lst = Join[lst, {1}], lst = Join[lst, {0}]]; i++]; // Timing > > Out[]= {226.07 Second, Null} > on the P4 celeron 2 Ghz , memory 382 MB ram > thanks > You forgot to initialize lst in your post. At any rate, using For is not recommended. Instead, try to make use of operations that are listable: 1-Abs[Sign[dat-1]] evaluates in 0 seconds on my machine and yields the same answer. Carl Woll