Hi,
I have a specific quantity to derive from an array, and I am at the
moment unable to do it for a too large array because it just takes too
long! So I am looking for an advice on how to efficiently compute such a
quantity:
I have 3 arrays of N floats (x[...], y[..], z[..]) and I wish to do:
result = 0.
for i in range(N) :
for j in range(i+1,N,1) :
result += 1. / sqrt((x[j] - x[i])**2 + (y[j] - y[i])**2 + (z[j] -
z[i])**2)
Of course the procedure written above is very inefficient and I thought
of doing:
result = 0.
for i in range(N) :
result += 1. / sqrt((x[i+1:] - x[i])**2 + (y[i+1:] - y[i])**2 +
(z[i+1:] - z[i])**2)
Still, this is quite slow and not workable for very large arrays (> 10^6
floats per array).
Any hint on how to speed things up here?
Thanks in advance!
Eric
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