Re: Proposal to introduce a shuffle function to intarray extension

On 7/16/22 16:21, Martin Kalcher wrote:
> Hey Mladen,
>
> thank you for your advice. Unfortunately the performance of shuffling 
> with NumPy is about the same as with SQL.
>
>   create function numpy_shuffle(arr int[])
>   returns int[]
>   as $$
>     import numpy
>     numpy.random.shuffle(arr)
>     return arr
>   $$ language 'plpython3u';
>
>   select arr[1:3]::text || ' ... ' || arr[3999998:4000000]::text
>   from (
>     select numpy_shuffle(arr) arr from numbers
>   ) shuffled;
>
>   -------------------------------------------------------
>    {674026,3306457,1727170} ... {343875,3825484,1235246}
>
>   Time: 2315.431 ms (00:02.315)
>
> Am i doing something wrong?
>
> Martin

Hi Martin,

No, you're doing everything right. I have no solution for you. You may 
need to do some C programming or throw a stronger hardware at the 
problem. The performance of your processors may be the problem. Good luck!

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Mladen Gogala
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