Per rispondere alla tua domanda, ho giocato con alcune varianti e le ho profilate.
Conclusione: per copiare i dati da un array numpy a un altro usa una delle funzioni numpy integrate numpy.array(src)
o numpy.copyto(dst, src)
dove possibile.
(Ma scegli sempre l'ultima se dst
la memoria di è già allocata, per riutilizzare la memoria. Vedi la profilazione alla fine del post.)
configurazione della profilazione
import timeit
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from IPython.display import display
def profile_this(methods, setup='', niter=10 ** 4, p_globals=None, **kwargs):
if p_globals is not None:
print('globals: {0}, tested {1:.0e} times'.format(p_globals, niter))
timings = np.array([timeit.timeit(method, setup=setup, number=niter,
globals=p_globals, **kwargs) for
method in methods])
ranking = np.argsort(timings)
timings = np.array(timings)[ranking]
methods = np.array(methods)[ranking]
speedups = np.amax(timings) / timings
pd.set_option('html', False)
data = {'time (s)': timings,
'speedup': ['{:.2f}x'.format(s) if 1 != s else '' for s in speedups],
'methods': methods}
data_frame = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=['time (s)', 'speedup', 'methods'])
display(data_frame)
print()
codice di profilazione
setup = '''import numpy as np; x = np.random.random(n)'''
methods = (
'''y = np.zeros(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x''',
'''y = np.zeros_like(x); y[:] = x''',
'''y = np.empty(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x''',
'''y = np.empty_like(x); y[:] = x''',
'''y = np.copy(x)''',
'''y = x.astype(x.dtype)''',
'''y = 1*x''',
'''y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x)''',
'''y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x, casting='no')''',
'''y = np.empty(n)\nfor i in range(x.size):\n\ty[i] = x[i]'''
)
for n, it in ((2, 6), (3, 6), (3.8, 6), (4, 6), (5, 5), (6, 4.5)):
profile_this(methods[:-1:] if n > 2 else methods, setup,
niter=int(10 ** it), p_globals={'n': int(10 ** n)})
risultati per Windows 7 su CPU Intel i7, CPython v3.5.0, numpy v1.10.1.
globals: {'n': 100}, tested 1e+06 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 0.386908 33.76x y = np.array(x)
1 0.496475 26.31x y = x.astype(x.dtype)
2 0.567027 23.03x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x)
3 0.666129 19.61x y = np.empty_like(x); y[:] = x
4 0.967086 13.51x y = 1*x
5 1.067240 12.24x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x, casting=...
6 1.235198 10.57x y = np.copy(x)
7 1.624535 8.04x y = np.zeros(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
8 1.626120 8.03x y = np.empty(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
9 3.569372 3.66x y = np.zeros_like(x); y[:] = x
10 13.061154 y = np.empty(n)\nfor i in range(x.size):\n\ty[...
globals: {'n': 1000}, tested 1e+06 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 0.666237 6.10x y = x.astype(x.dtype)
1 0.740594 5.49x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x)
2 0.755246 5.39x y = np.array(x)
3 1.043631 3.90x y = np.empty_like(x); y[:] = x
4 1.398793 2.91x y = 1*x
5 1.434299 2.84x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x, casting=...
6 1.544769 2.63x y = np.copy(x)
7 1.873119 2.17x y = np.empty(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
8 2.355593 1.73x y = np.zeros(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
9 4.067133 y = np.zeros_like(x); y[:] = x
globals: {'n': 6309}, tested 1e+06 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 2.338428 3.05x y = np.array(x)
1 2.466636 2.89x y = x.astype(x.dtype)
2 2.561535 2.78x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x)
3 2.603601 2.74x y = np.empty_like(x); y[:] = x
4 3.005610 2.37x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x, casting=...
5 3.215863 2.22x y = np.copy(x)
6 3.249763 2.19x y = 1*x
7 3.661599 1.95x y = np.empty(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
8 6.344077 1.12x y = np.zeros(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
9 7.133050 y = np.zeros_like(x); y[:] = x
globals: {'n': 10000}, tested 1e+06 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 3.421806 2.82x y = np.array(x)
1 3.569501 2.71x y = x.astype(x.dtype)
2 3.618747 2.67x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x)
3 3.708604 2.61x y = np.empty_like(x); y[:] = x
4 4.150505 2.33x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x, casting=...
5 4.402126 2.19x y = np.copy(x)
6 4.917966 1.96x y = np.empty(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
7 4.941269 1.96x y = 1*x
8 8.925884 1.08x y = np.zeros(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
9 9.661437 y = np.zeros_like(x); y[:] = x
globals: {'n': 100000}, tested 1e+05 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 3.858588 2.63x y = x.astype(x.dtype)
1 3.873989 2.62x y = np.array(x)
2 3.896584 2.60x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x)
3 3.919729 2.58x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x, casting=...
4 3.948563 2.57x y = np.empty_like(x); y[:] = x
5 4.000521 2.53x y = np.copy(x)
6 4.087255 2.48x y = np.empty(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
7 4.803606 2.11x y = 1*x
8 6.723291 1.51x y = np.zeros_like(x); y[:] = x
9 10.131983 y = np.zeros(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
globals: {'n': 1000000}, tested 3e+04 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 85.625484 1.24x y = np.empty_like(x); y[:] = x
1 85.693316 1.24x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x)
2 85.790064 1.24x y = np.empty_like(x); np.copyto(y, x, casting=...
3 86.342230 1.23x y = np.empty(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
4 86.954862 1.22x y = np.zeros(n, dtype=x.dtype); y[:] = x
5 89.503368 1.18x y = np.array(x)
6 91.986177 1.15x y = 1*x
7 95.216021 1.11x y = np.copy(x)
8 100.524358 1.05x y = x.astype(x.dtype)
9 106.045746 y = np.zeros_like(x); y[:] = x
Inoltre, vedere i risultati per una variante del profilo in cui la memoria della destinazione è già pre-allocata durante la copia del valore, poiché y = np.empty_like(x)
fa parte della configurazione:
globals: {'n': 100}, tested 1e+06 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 0.328492 2.33x np.copyto(y, x)
1 0.384043 1.99x y = np.array(x)
2 0.405529 1.89x y[:] = x
3 0.764625 np.copyto(y, x, casting='no')
globals: {'n': 1000}, tested 1e+06 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 0.453094 1.95x np.copyto(y, x)
1 0.537594 1.64x y[:] = x
2 0.770695 1.15x y = np.array(x)
3 0.884261 np.copyto(y, x, casting='no')
globals: {'n': 6309}, tested 1e+06 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 2.125426 1.20x np.copyto(y, x)
1 2.182111 1.17x y[:] = x
2 2.364018 1.08x y = np.array(x)
3 2.553323 np.copyto(y, x, casting='no')
globals: {'n': 10000}, tested 1e+06 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 3.196402 1.13x np.copyto(y, x)
1 3.523396 1.02x y[:] = x
2 3.531007 1.02x y = np.array(x)
3 3.597598 np.copyto(y, x, casting='no')
globals: {'n': 100000}, tested 1e+05 times
time (s) speedup methods
0 3.862123 1.01x np.copyto(y, x)
1 3.863693 1.01x y = np.array(x)
2 3.873194 1.01x y[:] = x
3 3.909018 np.copyto(y, x, casting='no')