Questions tagged [packed-arrays]
Tag for questions about packed arrays. Packed Arrays are data structures that can be seen as monolithic blocks containing a single data type, particularly Integers and Reals. Many functions operate very efficient on packed arrays. Questions may deal with packed array generation, conversion, and usage.
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Why are Packed Arrays limited to signed machine precision types?
Why are packed arrays limited to only a few types? Particularly, why are integer packed arrays limited to signed integers?
And is there a way to get the same efficiency you get with packed arrays in ...
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Is there a non-allocating way to modify elements of single-reference packed arrays?
I need to repeatedly increment cuboidal chunks of a 3D image. The image is large - on the order of 1G elements.
The only way I know of doing it using built-in Image functions is:
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Generalize the code to more variables
I have this code it runs and gives me the solution. How can I make it more compact and If I want it to extend(generalize) it to more variables how can I do it. I had asked a similar question here
(...
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How to convert the ListVector into PackedArray in FunctionCompile
Cross post here
I have a compile function cf to calculate the mean for a ragged list:
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Packed/Unpacked array - what object/like 0 or 1?/how to check/ [duplicate]
In Mathematica, there is a concept called packed array.
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What circumstances would cause memory to inflate while packing the sublists of a ragged matrix?
I'm working with a ragged matrix of considerable size (ByteCount = 47749114088; Length = 563529128). I had seen a suggestion mentioned in other questions (here on StackExchange), that one might be ...
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Fixing a step size with a variable causes array to be unpacked?
I would expect the following code to produce a packed 11x11x11 element array of 64 bit integers, but it doesn't:
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Unexpected unpacking of wrapped PackedArray
I'm confused as to why the following leads to unpacking of a PackedArray:
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Why is extracting values from an Association with 1 level slower than extracting values from a list of depth 1?
I am not looking for a solution or work-around, but an explanation.
Here are six examples of doing a trivial operation on an association and a list.
Initially, I was curious about the cost of calling ...
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Unexpected timing result of Total and Part performance of packed array
Define
a = RandomReal[1., {2, 100, 100, 100}];
then
Total[a, Infinity]; // RepeatedTiming
{0.00183727, Null}
and
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Compression results in unpacking of integers but not reals
Consider the following;
Pack some integers.
In[287]:= Clear[p5i, p5ic, p5icu, p5r, p5rc, p5rcu]
In[288]:= p5i = ToPackedArray@Range@5
Out[288]= {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
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spontaneously quitting kernel, assignment and packed arrays
I am having an issue where the kernel spontaneously quits, deep in a long code that I have used for quite some time without this issue.
I've tracked it down to an assignment of the form:
a[[All, All, ...
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Can't initialise packed array of rational numbers [closed]
If I evaluate the following code
t = Developer`ToPackedArray[{0, 2/7, -(1/7)}];
Developer`PackedArrayQ[t]
Mathematica returns ...
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Why Does Subsets[...,{n}] not Output a Packed List, Even Though it Doesn't Unpack?
Assume list is packed.
I expect Subsets[] is a structural operation because it depends on the number of elements, not on what ...
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Excessive usage of memory while using ArrayFlatten or Flatten
I have 16 NxN matrices, where N can be anywhere between 1000-64000.. Some of them are real and some of them are complex. I want to Reshape then to form a 4Nx4N matrix. When I try to accomplish this ...
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Different timing with large array assignment
Consider the following example
n = 10^8;
AbsoluteTiming[
A = ConstantArray[1., n]; // anyFunc;
A[[2 ;; ;; 2]] = -1.;
]
{0.388108, Null}
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Possible speed improvement for numerical linear algebra?
I have a question about further optimising a numerical linear algebra calculation. I've trawled through many useful posts on this site and have ended up with something quite efficient - I was ...
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Clarification on how Total[] can be used on multi-dimensional array
I have a rank 5 tensor that ultimately I want to modify so that for the first 3 dimensions, each element is summed together. The result will be a rank 2 tensor whose elements are the summed totals ...
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Unexpected behavior of the procedure `Area` on the object 'Polygon'
Bug introduced in 11.3 or earlier and fixed on 12.0.
Sometimes get a results, sometimes left unevaluated.
For instance
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Is it possible to avoid unpacking when merging Association?
For example, if we have
assoc =
AssociationThread[{1, 2, 3} -> RandomReal[1., {3, 10}]];
and
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Avoiding unpacking an array when altering its dimension
I am trying to flatten a matrix from 3-dimensional to 2-dimensional one.
The original one has dimension for example {10,120,120}:
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What changed in String handling between 11.0 and 11.3?
I was trying to optimize some String-handling code here using my standard trick of converting it to a list of bytes first and using basic list operations instead of ...
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Why can't (partially) packed arrays be used in this example?
Bug introduced in 11.3 or earlier and persisting through 12.1 or later. Fixed in 13.0.0 or earlier
I didn't expect any difference between these:
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How to send packed array from math kernel to 3rd party app via WSTP
Background
I'm developing a small python wrapper PyWSTP. The wrapper is still in very early stage and lacking features. One important feature I'm considering is transferring dense array between math ...
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Packing and unpacking of arrays with Map/Table
How can I create function, that will not unpack packed arrays with Map/Table. For example I want read bytes from opened stream (this is my original goal):
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PackedArray version of Chop
I'm a big fan of Chop. It's fast and useful in pre-rounding transforms and things
Unfortunately it also necessarily unpacks a real ...
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Strange unpacking of a packed array with Insert
In Mathematica 11.1.1, when a packed array is stored within another list, it gets unexpectedly unpacked when Inserting something into the outer list.
Create a ...
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RandomChoice output isn't packed
Why isn't the output of RandomChoice a packed array? For instance:
RandomChoice[{.5, .2, .3} -> {1, 2, 3}, 10]
Developer`PackedArrayQ @ %
{1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1, ...
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Fast function to do multiple rectangle region checks
Suppose I have a set of "rectangles" and a set of "points":
SeedRandom[5]
rects = RandomReal[10, {5, 2, 2}]
pts = RandomReal[10, {5, 2}]
{{{0.00790584, 0....
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revisit Table unpacking issue
This post is related to my previous post, since that post is ended. I start a new here. Because there is still something I don't understand.
define
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Is there a way to reduce size of complex number?
I would like to create huge matrices with hundreds of thousands of elements per side and I would like to use complex numbers in it for further processing by Mathematica functions. When I investigate ...
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Convert Real packed array of pairs to Complex packed array
I have a Real packed array arr. It may have arbitrary depth but Last@Dimensions[arr] == 2. ...
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How can I determine the type of a packed array?
Packed arrays can be of type Integer, Real or Complex. Knowing that an array ...
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Efficiently create an array of values of a function
I have a function of four arguments, and I would like to have its values on the four-dimensional grid in an array. What is the most efficient way to produce this array, and how do I make it packed?
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How to efficiently write into PackedArrays that are stored in Associations?
Using Association to generate complicated data types is very comfortable, in particular if one uses those tricks from How to make use of Associations?. However, I ...
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Unexpected result of Clip
A simple question. Here Clip works as documented:
Clip[0.5, {0, 0}, {0,1}]
(* 1 *)
Values larger than 0 are replaced with ...
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Efficient way to replace a value in packed array of integers
When working with integer label matrices returned by such functions as MorphologicalComponents, ImageForestingComponents etc. it ...
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Memory optimization for exporting "VideoFrames" with many large Array plots
Suppose you have 5 arrays (normalized by the number of arrays - in this case 5):
arrayList = Table[RandomChoice[Developer`ToPackedArray@{-1, 1}, {100, 100}]/5,{5}]
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Reap unpacks packed arrays
I noticed that Reap unpacks packed arrays. I've looked at previous answers but am still an unsure whether this a serious issue.
E.g. consider Ex 47.3 from EIWL:
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RegionMeasure on packed array crashes Kernel in version 11.1
Bug introduced in 11.1.0 and fixed in 11.1.1
In version 11.1.0, applying RegionMeasure or Area to a region with packed ...
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PackedArray and Dot results in undesired unpacking
General problem
I need to work with two vectors (List) of Real numbers that are quite large (each vector containing about $4\...
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Using Set without unpacking an array
I'm trying to optimise my code by making us of packed array.
However, it appears that using Set in combination with Part ...
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Why does MapAt unpack individual elements?
(In case this is version specific I am using Mathematica 10.1 under Windows.)
While responding to Partition array without unpacking I noticed something about MapAt ...
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Accelerating the construction of a ParallelTable
I wish to calculate a rather dense antisymmetric matrix quite fast based on a random distribution of points (and their radii) in the three dimensional space as follows:
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Why are these timings for Pick so different?
I construct two lists, to be used in Pick as the second argument. The first one is a -1, 1 list and the second one is identical, but with -1 replaced with 0.
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Looking for a package for data on (sparse) uniform grids
I have large amounts of sparse 2d and 3d "volumetric" data, i.e. fixed data associated with positions in a uniform (integer coordinate) grid. I think of it as partial function
$$f: \mathbb Z^n \to D.$...
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Getting directly a packed array of repeated packed arrays
Consider this code:
Needs["Developer`"];
N@Range[5];
PackedArrayQ@%
Table[%%, 5];
PackedArrayQ@%
which prints True, ...
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Fast way to export large amount of data in "Table" format
I have about a million 3D points, say
data = Table[{1. x, 1. y, 0.}, {x, 1000}, {y, 10^3}]~Flatten~1;
I want to visualize them, but ...
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Nested list can not be packed?
Why can't nested list be packed?
In[252]:= ftest = {1., {3.}};
ftest = Developer`ToPackedArray[ftest];
Developer`PackedArrayQ[ftest]
Out[254]= False
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