16 questions linked to/from Why is the new PositionIndex horribly slow?
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### How to efficiently find positions of duplicates?

Is there an efficient way to find the positions of the duplicates in a list? I would like the positions grouped according to duplicated elements. For instance, given ...
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### Why is there no PositionFunction in Mathematica?

Too often I have seen the programs of inexperienced users greatly slowed by using Position in an iterative fashion, when far faster would have been to compute a ...
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### Can Mathematica's random number generation be improved?

Performance on Random Number generation is intolerable. Whenever you need many deviates from the same distribution but with different parameters it takes forever. Here is a thread on Poisson deviates ...
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### GroupBy several keys while keeping the Dataset as a Table (List of Associations)

Assume you import data from a Table source of the following format. ...
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### Reproducing a ranking function that behaves like Excel's RANK

I tried to find a function or expression in Mathematica that produces the same output as the RANK function in Excel (see its description here), but unfortunately I ...
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### Why is Query so much slower than Part?

Time for another of these(1),(2) as yet another new-in-10 function appears to have poor performance compared to older alternatives. This time: Query appears to be ...
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### Why some built-in functions are slow

I just wonder why some built-in functions are slower compared to some other ways using more than one built-in functions for doing same job. consider this example: ...
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### In 10.1.0 BenchmarkPlot doesn't work?

Bug introduced in 10.1 This bug was resolved in 10.2.0, but another bug was introduced in 10.3.0 persisting through 10.3.1 and finally resolved in 10.4 In Mathematica 10.1.0 and 10.3.0 ...
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### Truncating a list once all members of a set have appeared?

Consider if you would the case where we have some list of elements: list0 = {54, 4, 7, 9, 3, 54, 4, 20, 2, 456, 2, 3}; And we have some target list: ...
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### Speed of ConvexHullMesh

Pick $N$ random points on the surface of the sphere, then use ConvexHullMesh[] to compute their convex hull. Empirically, this takes time quadratic time in $N,$ ...
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### Slicing an Association with named key span without normalizing?

Is there way to slice an Association with named key span? Span currently doesn't accept named keys: ...
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### Held keys in associations

Bug introduced in 10.0 and persisting through 11.0.1 or later Bug introduced in 10.0 and fixed in 10.4 Association is new in 10.0. Bug still present: ...
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### Extracting values with multiple keys

I want to extract sorted data from a huge database based upon two (or more) keys in a very timely manner. Here is a reproducible toy example for two keys only: ...