Hope this isn't too off-topic: but it would be very nice if np.histogram
and np.histogram2d supported masked arrays. Is this out of scope for
outside the numpy.ma package?

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Robert McGibbon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It sounds like putting together a PR makes sense then. I'll try hacking on
> this a bit.
>
> -Robert
> On Mar 16, 2015 11:20 AM, "Jaime Fernández del Río" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Jerome Kieffer <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 06:56:58 -0700
>>> Jaime Fernández del Río <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Dispatching to a different method seems like a no brainer indeed. The
>>> > question is whether we really need to do this in C.
>>>
>>> I need to do both unweighted & weighted histograms and we got a factor 5
>>> using (simple) cython:
>>> it is in the proceedings of Euroscipy, last year.
>>> http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6367.pdf
>>
>>
>> If I read your paper and code properly, you got 5x faster, mostly because
>> you combined the weighted and unweighted histograms into a single search of
>> the array, and because you used an algorithm that can only be applied to
>> equal- sized bins, similarly to the 10x speed-up Robert was reporting.
>>
>> I think that having a special path for equal sized bins is a great idea:
>> let's do it, PRs are always welcome!
>> Similarly, getting the counts together with the weights seems like a very
>> good idea.
>>
>> I also think that writing it in Python is going to take us 80% of the way
>> there: most of the improvements both of you have reported are not likely to
>> be coming from the language chosen, but from the algorithm used. And if C
>> proves to be sufficiently faster to warrant using it, it should be confined
>> to the number crunching: I don;t think there is any point in rewriting
>> argument parsing in C.
>>
>> Also, keep in mind `np.histogram` can now handle arrays of just about
>> **any** dtype. Handling that complexity in C is not a ride in the park.
>> Other functions like `np.bincount` and `np.digitize` cheat by only handling
>> `double` typed arrays, a luxury that histogram probably can't afford at
>> this point in time.
>>
>> Jaime
>>
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