Re: position lists
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- Subject: [mg68956] Re: position lists
- From: "rych" <rychphd at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:35:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Thank you, Daniel and the others I meant double brackets. I use esc[[esc to make them and I din't know how to copy in to the newsgroup, so I did Edit-CopyAs-Text(with witespaces). Now I'll be doing Cell-ConvertTo-InputForm, and then copy-paste. Summarizing the topic, the PositionListsC is much faster but it produces a linked list. In order to use it I have to retreat to element-wise, Do-While programming, because there're no built-in functions, no faster ways to to work with Knuth linked lists. Igor Daniel Lichtblau wrote: > rych wrote: > > My questions was whether there's such a built-in list function. Or > > perhaps a package that could give lists of points sorted into bins. > > > I'm not sure what you actually did but the code you show above will not > work as advertised. Array indexing requires double brackets, not single. > Below is code that will give {{5,4,0,6},{0,1,0,3,2,0}} for your simple > example. > > PositionListsC = Compile[{{a,_Integer,1},{nBins,_Integer}}, > Module[ > {heads=Table[0,{nBins}], linkedlist=Table[0,{Length[a]}], bin}, > Do [ > bin = a[[i]]; > linkedlist[[i]] = heads[[bin]]; > heads[[bin]] = i > , {i,Length[a]} > ]; > Join[heads,linkedlist]] > ]; > > Now the question is how to convert this to the same representation as is > given by the slower code: > > positionLists2[ll_List, n_Integer] := > Flatten@Position[ll,#]& /@ Range[n]] > > Offhand I don't know, partly because I have not decrypted this form of > result from PositionListsC. > > [I will remark that I utterly despise this construct > Flatten at Position[...]& ... because it is quite unobvious how the binding > goes. Is it equivalent to > > positionLists2b[ll_List, n_Integer] := > Flatten[Position[ll,#]]& /@ Range[n] > > or to > > positionLists2c[ll_List, n_Integer] := > Flatten[Position[ll,#]& /@ Range[n]] > > ?? > > It's the former, but really, who knew?] > > Anyway, I advocate circumventing the whole thing using Reap[Sow[...]] as > below. > > positionLists3[ll_List, n_Integer] := > Map[Flatten,Last[Reap[MapIndexed[Sow[#2[[1]],#1]&, ll], Range[n]]]] > > nBins = 1000; > b = Table[Random[Integer, {1, nBins}], {100000}]; > > Your reference timing: > > In[55]:= Timing[(joined = PositionListsC[b, nBins] ; { > Take[joined, nBins], Take[joined, -Length@b]};)] > Out[55]= {0.032002, Null} > > The pedestrian method: > > In[56]:= Timing[res2 = positionLists2[b,nBins];] > Out[56]= {11.8007, Null} > > The Reap[Sow[]] method: > > In[59]:= Timing[res3 = positionLists3[b,nBins];] > Out[59]= {0.452028, Null} > > In[60]:= res2===res3 > Out[60]= True > > So it is 15x slower than your PositionListsC but requires no > post-processing to get it into an explicit set of bins. > > > Daniel Lichtblau > Wolfram Research
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