Numba减慢代码?

时间:2014-03-31 17:54:05

标签: python performance numba

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今天我在SO question找到了一个想要加速他的代码的人。所以我想让'和看看我们用numba可以实现的目标。

以下是代码:

from numba import autojit
from time import time

LIMIT = pow(10,6)

def primes(limit):
    # Keep only odd numbers in sieve, mapping from index to number is
    # num = 2 * idx + 3
    # The square of the number corresponding to idx then corresponds to:
    # idx2 = 2*idx*idx + 6*idx + 3
    sieve = [True] * (limit // 2)
    prime_numbers = set([2])
    for j in range(len(sieve)):
        if sieve[j]:
            new_prime = 2*j + 3
            prime_numbers.add(new_prime)
            for k in range((2*j+6)*j+3, len(sieve), new_prime):
                sieve[k] = False
    return list(prime_numbers)


numba_primes = autojit(primes)



start = time()
numba_primes(LIMIT)
end=time()
print("Numba: Time Taken : ",end-start)

start = time()
primes(LIMIT)
end=time()
print("Python: Time Taken : ",end-start)

结果:

('Numba: Time Taken : ', 0.68790602684021)
('Python: Time Taken : ', 0.12417221069335938)

为什么会这样?似乎用numba这段代码没有得到更快!

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:2)

这是你的代码的numba-ized版本(使用Numba 0.13),这是通过使用numpy数组优化的

import numpy as np
import numba

# You could also just use @numba.jit or @numba.jit(nopython=True)
# here and get comparable timings.
@numba.jit('void(uint8[:])', nopython=True)
def primes_util(sieve):
    ssz = sieve.shape[0]
    for j in xrange(ssz):
        if sieve[j]:
            new_prime = 2*j + 3
            for k in xrange((2*j+6)*j+3, ssz, new_prime):
                sieve[k] = False

def primes_numba(limit):
    sieve = np.ones(limit // 2, dtype=np.uint8)
    primes_util(sieve)

    return [2] + (np.nonzero(sieve)[0]*2 + 3).tolist()

然后与时间进行比较:

In [112]: %timeit primes(LIMIT)
1 loops, best of 3: 221 ms per loop

In [113]: %timeit primes_numba(LIMIT)
100 loops, best of 3: 11 ms per loop

In [114]:

a = set(primes(LIMIT))
b = set(primes_numba(LIMIT))

a == b
Out[114]:

True

这是20倍的加速,尽管可能还有进一步的优化。没有jit装饰器,numba版本在我的机器上运行大约300毫秒。实际调用primes_util只需要大约5毫秒,其余的调用np.nonzero并转换为列表。